The Vicar of Wakefield

by Oliver Goldsmith

[Chapter XVII.]
Scarce any virtue found to resist the power of long and pleasing temptation

[Chapter XVIII.]
The pursuit of a father to reclaim a lost child to virtue

[Chapter XIX.]
The description of a Person discontented with the present government, and apprehensive of the loss of our liberties

[Chapter XX.]
The history of a philosophic vagabond, pursuing novelty, but losing content

[Chapter XXI.]
The short continuance of friendship among the vicious, which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction

[Chapter XXII.]
Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at bottom

[Chapter XXIII.]
None but the guilty can be long and completely miserable

[Chapter XXIV.]
Fresh calamities

[Chapter XXV.]
No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some sort of comfort attending it

[Chapter XXVI.]
A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete, they should reward as well as punish