271 CLI. On the Ülity of Religious Ceremonies, and ofitting Mac and external Magnifi cence
in places of Devot.... 274 CLII. On the prefent State of Parliamentary Eloquence. 277 CLIII. A
Life of Letters fually a Life of compara tive Innocence. 282 CLIV. On the Advantage which
may be derived to the Tender and Pathetic Style, from using the Words and Phrafes of
Scripture. 286 CLV. On the Figure Parrbefia, or on expreffing one's Sentiment's freely. 289
CLVI. On Reading merely with a Vierv to Amuſement. 291

As the present differs greatly from the preceding editions, it may be necessary to give some
account of the alteration: and I hope the reader will indulge what may be called the parental
fondness of an Author, while he briefly relates the history of his work. Many of the papers in
the first edition of the first volume were written at College, as voluntary exercises, for the
sake of improvement. They had all of them an undoubted right to the epithet of juvenile.
Some were composed before the writer had left his school, and most of them before he had …