Podrobnosti o knize
CONTENTS.
SECTION I.
GEOGRAPHY AND NATURAL HISTORY.
Page
1. Early Civilization round the 20. The Sea Fowler
Mediterranean
1 21. The Ass
2. The first attempts at Commerce 3 22. To a Young Ass
3. The Nile and the Desert
7 23. The Dog
4. The Position of Egypt
11 24. Ulysses' Dog
5. Description of Egypt -
13 25. The Royal Tiger
6. The Pyramids of Egypt
15 26. Southern and Northern Climates
7 Advantages of the situation of 27. To a Snowdrop -
Constantinople
17 28. Lakes and Rivers
8. Constantinople
18 29. The Springs of Rivers
9. Description of Arabia
19 30. Iceland
10. Arabia and its Inhabitants
21 31. The Patriot's Boast
11. The Ocean Waters of the Globe 22 32. Fingal's Cave, Staffa
12. Epoch of Ocean Discoveries
23 33. Description of India
13. The Land of the Globe
25
34. Geography and Classification of
14. The Oasis of the Desert
27
Animals
15. Conformation of the Land of the 35. Damascus -
Globe
28 36. Description of New Zealand
16. The vast Extent of America 30 | 37. The Migration of Birds
17. Distribution of the Ocean
33 38. The Study of Nature
18. The Band of Commerce
35 39. Action of Climate upon Man
19. Natural History of the Gannet 36
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SECTION II.
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
1. The Study of History
73
2. The buried Cities of Egypt
75
3. The Character and Influence of
the XII. Tables of the Roman
Law
77
4. Peculiar Character of the Ancient
Tyrannies
78
5. History
80
6. Difference between Ancient and
Modern History
7. The Third Punic War
82
8. The Siege of Syracuse
84
9. Life of Alfred the Great
85
10. The Saxons
88
11. Chivalry
90
12. Effects of the Crusades
93
13. The Council of Clermont
95
14. Discovery of America
96
15. The Settlement of Virginia
97
16. Extinction of the Royal House of
Stuart
98
17. Luther and the Reformation 100
18. Effects of Revolutions
103
19. Life of Peter the Great
105
20. Peter the Great -
107
21. Parentage and Early Youth of
Napoleon
108
22. Death of Napoleon
110
23. Reflections on the Peninsular War 111
24. Runnemede
113
25. The Extinction of Slavery in
England
114
26. Sonnet
117
27. Saxons and Normans
28.
}The Acquittal of the Bishops
29,
: 124
30. Sir Alexander Ball
31. Character of Charles II.
127
32. Samuel Johnson
129
33. Of the Distribution of the Human
Race
131
34. Siege of Gibraltar
133
35. Autobiography of Elihu Burritt 135
36. The Battle of the Nile
137
37. On the Dispersion of Mankind at
Babel
139
38. Sketch of the Native Americans 141
39. Introduction of the Silk-worm in
Europe
143
40. Superiority of Greek Civilization 145
41. The End of Great Men".
146
42. The History of England is the
History of Progress
147
43. British Freedom
149
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SECTION III.
EDUCATION AND PROGRESS.
Page.
1. The Power of Education
150 21. Man lives by Labour -
183
2. Education begins in Infancy 151 22. Improvement in the Manners of
3. Never Punish in Anger
153
the People
185
4. Progress from Barbarism
154 23. Teachers should lead their Scho-
5. The Duty of Educating our Chil-
lars, not drive them
187
dren
156 24. Progress of Education in England 190
6. The Pleasures of Knowledge
158
25. Moral Progress of England from
7. Reading, the Solace of Toil 160
1800 to 1850.
192
8. Influence of the Art of Printing 162 26. The Evils of our Condition
9. The Diffusion of Knowledge
mostly curable
195
favourable to the growth of 27. The Ignorance of the Neapolitans 197
Science -
164 28. On the Education of Working
10. What little Boys ought to know 166
Men
199
11. Education compared to Sculpture 168 29. The Condition-of-England Ques-
12. The Value and Price of Know-
tion
201
ledge
169 30. Emigration or Starvation
204
13. Theory and Practice should go 31. The Scottish Exile's Farewell 205
together
170
32. Discipline superior to Enthusiasm 206
14. Hope on, Hope ever
172 33. Science now more widely diffused
15. The Glory of Philosophy
173
than formerly
16. Influence of Dante's Poetry 174 34. Importance of Means of Internal 17. Industrial Education in Work-
Communication to the Indus-
houses
176
try and Morality of a People 210
18. The Object of Working Schools - 178 35. The Passion for Improvement 211
19. The Education of the Labourer's 36. England's Neglect of National
Child
179
Education
20. The Crossing-sweeper
181
208
SECTION IV.
THE SEA AND MARITIME ADVENTURE.
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135
145
1. Superstition of Seamen
215
2. The Inchcape Bell
217
3. The Arctic Seas
219
4. Hope, the support of the Sailor - 221
5. Life of Captain Cook -
222
6. Admiral Collingwood at the
Battle of Trafalgar
225
7. The Return of the Admiral 228
8. Nelson and Hardy
229
9.
} The Loss of the Royal George
231
10.}
235
11. The Uses of the Ocean
- 236
12. Address to the Ocean -
237
13. Scudding before a Gale of Wind 238
14. Grace Darling
240
15. The Defence of Dover Castle 242
16. The Beauty of the Sea
244
17. Night at Sea
245
18. Treasures of the Deep
246
19. Court-martial of Humphrey Blake 247
20. The State of the Navy in Charles
the Second's Time -
248
21. The Adventures of Commodore
Byron
254
22. Commodore Byron
259
23. A Dreary Night at Sea
24. The Shipwreck
261
25. Naval Improvements
26. A Rainy Day at Sea -
263
27. A Drowsy Midshipman
265
28. Literary Pursuits of Sailors 267
29. Voyage across the Atlantic in a
Sailing Vessel
269
30. The Castaway Ship
273
31. The Sea
274
32. Deliciæ Maris
275
33. A Tidal Harbour with the Sea
out and in
278
34. The Fishing-boat-Going out 280
35. A Sea-side Sketch
281
36. The solitary and kind Islanders
--Alexander Selkirk
282
37. Greenwich Hospital
38. Hymn of Thankgiving
287
39. The Sailor Boy of Carron
288
40. “Black Joke" with Slaver
41. Greek Mariners -
291
42. The Sea
293
43. Burial at Sea
294
44. The Sailor's Grave
298
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SECTION V.
IMAGINATION AND SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS.
1. Dignity of Human Nature - 299 22. On the Miseries of War
332
2. How England treats Men of 23. The Vision of Mirza -
334
Science
301 24. The Power of Music
338
3. The Calamities of Authors
304 25. The Life of a Monkey
339
4. Fable of the Seven Sleepers
305
26. London Fog and the Court of
5. The Spirit of Exaggeration 307
Chancery
341
6. The Three Black Crows
309 27. Lamentation on the Death of a
7. On Cruelty to the Brute Creation 310
Son
345
8. The Children in the Wood -
311 28. The renowned Wouter Van
9. Franklin's Visit to his Mother 315
Twiller -
346
10. Young Birds taking Wing - 319 29. The Effects of the Weather on
11. Wit and Humour
the Temper
343
12. The Solitary Reaper
321
30. The Glory of Poetry -
351
13. On Cruelty to Animals
322 31. My Heart leaps up when I be-
14. The Selfish Man
323
hold
352
15. Reflections on Autumn
324 32. The influence of the Body on the
16. The Fall of the Leaf -
325
Mind
17. Christmas within-doors in the 33. “Joy over one Sinner
354
North of Germany
326 34. The Love of Life
356
18. The Lord helpeth Man and Beast 328 35. The Dignity of Age
. 357 19. The Place of Tasso's confinement 329 36. Sorrow for the Dead
- 358
20. On the Love of Country
330 37. Reminiscence
360
21. The Patriot's Prayer for England 331
SECTION VI.
SCIENCE AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.
1. The Use of the Senses
361 20. Society
395
2. Confidence in God
363 21. Capital and Labour
396
3. The Book of Nature .
364 22. The Wonders of Natural Philo-
4. The Nature and Objects of Phy-
sophy
399
sical Science
367 23. On the Study of Astronomy 400
5. Practice precedes Science
369 24, Adam and Eve conversing in
6. The Barometer
371
Paradise
403
7. Language
373 25. The Electric Telegraph
405
8. Division of Labour
376 26. Life of Nature
406
9. The Use of the Institution of 27. Science and its Martyrs
407
Property
377 28. Inland Transit as it was and is 410
10. Objections to the study of Poli- 29. The Philosophy of Language 412
tical Economy obviated - 380 30. The mutual relation of the
11. The Art of Transport and its
Sciences
414
Advantages
382 31. Preserved Meats
416
12. Journalism in England
384 32. Metallurgical Processes and Pro-
13. Use and abuse of Ancient
ducts
418
Learning
385 33. On the Reformation of the Ca-
14. The Introduction of the Potato - 386
lendar
421
15. On the Conditions necessary to 34. Influence of improved Transport
the best Form of Government 388
on Civilization
423
16. In what Philosophy consists 390 35. Analogies between Vegetable
17. Every Age must judge for itself- ib.
and Animal Life
424
18. The Golden Year
393 36. On the Diffusion of Knowledge 425
19. Strikes among Men and Masters 394 37. Instruction
427
SECTION VII.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL.
1. The Bible and its Author . 428 16. The Ways of God
448 2. Of Contentedness in all estates 429 17. The First Psalm
450
3. Milton on his Blindness
432 18. A suspicious Temper the source
4. The Immortality and Improva-
of misery to its Possessor 451
bility of Man
ib. 19. Animals fitted to the place they
5. The Lord's Prayer
434
occupy
452
6. The proper use and excellency of 20. The Voice of Nature to Man 454
Reason
435 21. Nothing useless in Vegetable
7. An Exposition of the Tenth
Nature -
455
Commandment
436 22. Certain Modes of Human Exis-
8. A mixture of Error does not
tence ascribed to God
456
invalidate Religion
23. Reflections in Westminster
9. What is foretold in Prophecy 438
Abbey
458
10. Harp of Prophecy
440 24. The old Library at Wimborne,
11. The Value of the Bible
442
Dorsetshire
459
12. The Spirit before Form in mat- 25. Days among the Dead
461
ters of Religion
443 26. Man's physical superiority over
13. All ought to be industrious in
the Animal Creation
462
their Calling
444 27. The Order of Nature -
463
14. Industry
446 28. The Economy of creative Power 464
15. Evil has not originated with 29. The Works of Creation
465
God
447 30. On the Idea of the Supreme Being 466
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