NATHAN DRAKE, M. D.

AUTHOR OF "LITERARY HOURS," AND OF "ESSAYS ON
PERIODICAL LITERATURE."

PRINTED FOR SUTTABY, EVANCE, AND CO. STATIONERS' COURT;

AND

ROBERT BALDWIN, PATER-NOSTER ROW; ALSO FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD,
EDINBURGH, AND MICHAEL KEENE, DUBLIN,

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XLVIII. ON intellectual pleasure

XLIX. The same concluded

XL. On extravagance; Speech of an Old Oak.

LI. Religion the basis of true honour. Morn-

ing Piece, a poem

LII. Wit and Beauty, an allegory

LIII. Description of a beautiful morning: pro-
duction of the fly from the caterpillar

tribe

LIV. The bee and the almond tree, descrip-

tion of

LV. Observations on the fourth estate in the
English constitution, commonly digni-

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fied and distinguished by the name of

The Mob

LVI. The same concluded

LVII. On the study of astronomy

LVIII. Animalcules in frozen grass seen through

a microscope

LIX. Death, a vision

LX. On the process of the production of the

beetle tribe

LXI. The pleasures of a rural ramble

LXII. On chastity.-Abah Rabieh, an Eastern

tale

LXIII. On the phænomena of dew

LXIV. On scolding.-Description of Mrs. Joan

· Vinegar..

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LXV. On the happiness. of animals.-Fly like a
hornet, hatched in the nest of the hum-
ble bee

LXVI. The seat of the Muses, a rhapsodic

vision

LXVII. Praise to God, the importance and the
pleasure of that duty. Night piece, a
poem

LXVIII, On the produce of the eggs of the bee-

fly

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