Essays
By: edited and compared by the author of "The gentle life".
Contributors: Friswell, James, Hain, 1825-1878
Edition: 4th ed.
Series: The Gentle life series, no. 5
Publisher: S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Published: 1880
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Table of contents: title: Preliminary Essay (p. v); title: Of Sorrow ( p. 1); title: That our Affections carry themselves beyond our existence (p. 6); title: How the Soul discharges its Passions upon false objects when the true are wanting (p. 17); title: Of Idleness (p. 21); title: Of Liars (p. 23); title: Of Readiness or Slowness in Speech (p. 32); title: Of Prognostications (p. 36); title: Of Constancy (p. 42); title: Of the Ceremony at the Interview of Princes (p. 46); title: Of Fear (p. 49); title: We are not to judge of Man's Happiness before his death (p. 53); title: Philosophy teaches us how to die (p. 57); title: One Man's Profit is another Man's Loss (p. 81); title: Of Pedantry (p. 83); title: Of one Defect in our Government (p. 102); title: Of wearing Clothes (p. 105); title: Of Friendship (p. 110); title: Of Cannibals (p. 131); title: Of Democritus and Heraclitus (p. 152); title: Of Prayers (p. 157); title: Of Age (p. 170); title: Tomorrow for Business (p. 174); title: Of Conscience (p. 178); title: Of Honours and Rewards (p. 184); title: Of Books (p. 190); title: Of Cruelty (p. 211); title: Excerpts from Apology for Raimond Sebond; title: The Vanity of Wisdom (p. 233); title: That it is pleasant to search after Truth (p. 236); title: Human Ignorance (p. 241); title: Of Giving the Lie (p. 246); title: We taste nothing Pure (p. 253); title: Of Posts (p. 258); title: Of Bad Means employed to a Good End (p. 260); title: Not to Counterfeit Sickness (p. 266); title: Of Thumbs (p. 270); title: Of a Child Monster (p. 272); title: Of Anger (p. 275); title: Of Three Good Women (p. 286); title: Of the most Excellent Men (p. 298); title: Of the Resemblance of Children to their Fathers (p. 309)