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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 |