Virtue of Absence 21 Overstrained Feeling 21 The Essex Ring 22 A Prayer 23 Letter from his late Majesty, King William IV. 24 Joan of Arc 25 Bear and forbear 26 A Gentleman 26 The awakened Idolater 27 Henry IV. of France 28 Time 30 Charles I. 30 Merit and good Fortune 31 The Petition of a Monkey--_Lord Erskine, late Chancellor_ 32 Taste and Custom 35 Filial Duty 36 King of Prussia and Voltaire 36 To a Daughter, on her Marriage 37 James I. 37 On the Death of the Hon. John Gore 38 Abraham to Isaac 39 Zarapha to Rebecca 39 The Mansion of Rest 40 National Taciturnity 42 Election by Balls 42 Anecdote of Robespierre 43 The Old Woman and her Ass--_The Hon. Henry Erskine, Lord Advocate of Scotland_ 44 Life a mingled Yarn 46 Henry VIII. and Francis I. 47 Anecdote of Torregiano 47 Decline of Families 48 Robert Bruce 49 How to meet Afflictions 49 Soho 50 Loss of a Parent 51 Fruit 51 Anecdote of Frederick the Great 52 Equity 53 Mussulman 54 Matthias, Count Thurnes 54 Sir Thomas More 55 Key to Happiness 55 John de Pelham 56 Prayer on the Prospect of Death 57 Whitehall 58 Adieu 59 Indifference 59 Unrequited Love 60 The Cross 60 Solitude 60 Prayer--_Voltaire_ 61 Method of preserving a Plant 61