THE WORKS

OF

ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD.

WITH A MEMOIR

BY LUCY AIKIN.

Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er
Scatters from her pictured urn
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND. GREEN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1825.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

Page

Letters to Dr, Aikin

3 & 150

Letters to Miss E. Belsham, afterwards Mrs. Ken-

rick,

58

Letters to Miss Dixon, afterwards Mrs. Beecroft 70

Letters to Mrs. J. Taylor

102

Letter to Miss Taylor, now Mrs. Reeve .

113

Letters to Mrs. Carr.

116

Letters to Mrs. Smith

124

Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Estlin.

127

Letters to Mrs. Fletcher .

138

Letter to Miss F. .

146

Letter to

148

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MISCELLANEOUS Pieces.

The Hill of Science: A Vision

163

On Romances: An Imitation

171
Seláma : An Imitation of Ossian

176

Against Inconsistency in our Expectations

183

On Monastic Institutions

195

An Inquiry into those kinds of Distress which ex-

cite agreeable Sensations :— With a Tale

214

Thoughts on the Devotional Taste, and on Sects and

Establishments

232

The Curé of the Banks of the Rhone .

260

Zephyrus and Flora

268

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CONTENTS.

Page

On Evil: A Rhapsody

272

Dialogue between Madame Cosmogunia and a Phi-

losophical Inquirer of the Eighteenth Century 277

Letter of John Bull

288

Letter on Watering-places

295

On Education

. 305
On Prejudice

321

Dialogue in the Shades

338

Knowledge and her Daughter: A Fable .

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• 350

An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Cor-

poration and Test Acts.

353

Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation; or, a Discourse

for the Fast, appointed on April 19, 1793

379

Remarks on Mr. Gilbert Wakefield's Enquiry into the

Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Wor-

ship.

413

CORRESPONDENCE.

VOL. II.

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