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THE WORKS OF MRS. AMELIA OPIE;
Complete in Three Volumes.
VOLUME III.
Philadelphia:
Crissy & Markley, No. 4 Minor St.
1848.
Printed by T. K. & P. G. Collins.
CONTENTS OF THIRD VOLUME.
PAGE
TEMPER 5
A WOMAN'S LOVE 175
A WIFE'S DUTY; being a continuation of a Woman's Love 209
THE TWO SONS 269
THE OPPOSITE NEIGHBOUR 300
LOVE, MYSTERY, AND SUPERSTITION 321
AFTER THE BALL; OR, THE TWO SIR WILLIAMS 363
FALSE OR TRUE; OR, THE JOURNEY TO LONDON 375
THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ODD-TEMPERED MAN 394
ILLUSTRATIONS OF LYING, IN ALL ITS BRANCHES:
CHAP. I.--Introduction 414
CHAP. II.--On the Active and Passive Lies of Vanity--The
Stage Coach--Unexpected Discoveries 415
CHAP. III.--On the Lies of Flattery--The Turban 427
CHAP. IV.--Lies of Fear--The Bank-Note 431
CHAP. V.--Lies falsely called Lies of Benevolence--A
Tale of Potted Sprats--An Authoress and her
Auditors 434
CHAP. VI.--Lies of Convenience--Projects Defeated 437
CHAP. VII.--Lies of Interest--The Screen 441
CHAP. VIII.--Lies of First-Rate Malignity--The Orphan 445
CHAP. IX.--Lies of Second-Rate Malignity--The Old
Gentleman and the Young One 451
CHAP. X.--Lies of Benevolence--Mistaken Kindness--Father
and Son 455
CHAP. XI.--Lies of Wantonness and Practical Lies 465
CHAP. XII.--Our own Experience of the Painful Results
of Lying 467
CHAP. XIII.--Lying the most common of all Vices 470
CHAP. XIV.--Extracts from Lord Bacon, and others 471
CHAP. XV.--Observations on the Extracts from Hawkesworth
and others 478
CHAP. XVI.--Religion the only Basis of Truth 480
CHAP. XVII.--The same subject continued 491
Conclusion 493
A WOMAN'S LOVE, AND A WIFE'S DUTY.
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