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Author: Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.
Title: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison.:
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Print source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison.:
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.
London: printed for S. Richardson; and sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes; J. and J. Rivington; Andrew Millar; R. and J. Dodsley; and J. Leake, at Bath, 1755.
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PREFACE.
A COLLECTION OF THE Moral and Instructive SENTIMENTS Contained in the History of PAMELA.
A
Address to the Rich.
Advantages of Men over Women, owing to Women themselves.
Adversity.
Advice to young married Women.
Advice to Young Women.
Anger.
B.
Bashfulness. Sheepishness.
Beauty.
Beneficence.
C.
Calumny. Censure. Censoriousness.
Cautions to young Female Servants.
Charity. Alms-giving.
section
Chearfulness.
Children in their early Infancy.
Children how to be treated in their Infantile State, with a View to the Cultivation of their Minds.
Children and Servants.
Clergy.
Clergyman's Wife.
section
Competency.
Conscience. Consciousness.
Conjugal Piety.
Consolation.
Consolation to the Poor.
section
Courtship.
Credulity.
Custom.
D.
Death.
section
Double Entendre.
Dress.
Duty to Superiors.
part
EDUCATION.
Female EDUCATION.
ENVY.
Example.
F.
Fashion.
Female Dignity.
Filial Piety.
Flattery.
Forgiveness.
Fortitude.
Friendship.
G.
General Instructions.
General Observations.
Genius.
Good Men.
Good Wife.
Gratitude.
Guardian.
H.
Happiness.
Heroic Poverty.
High Life, a Picture of it, from Infancy to Maturity.
Histories and Characters of particular Ladies.
Honour.
Human Life.
Human Nature.
Humility.
Husband and Wife.
I.
Impartiality. Partiality.
section
Industry.
K.
Keeping.
L.
Lawyer.
Libertines. Rakes.
Love.
Love at first sight.
Platonic Love.
Low Life.
M.
Magnanimity.
Marriage.
Unequal Marriages.
section
Master's Behaviour to his Female Servant.
Maternal Duty.
Merit.
Mistress of a Family.
Modesty.
Moral Man.
part
section
section
O.
Obligation.
Obstinacy.
Old Maids.
Old Rakes.
section
P.
Parents and Children.
Passion. Passionate.
Patrons.
Penitence.
section
section
Political Observations.
Poor not to be despised by the Rich.
Praise.
Pride. Proud.
Promises. Vows.
Prosperity.
Public Entertainments. Town Diversions.
Q, R.
section
Rectitude of Mind.
Reformation.
Relations.
Religion. Religious Considerations.
section
Reproofs.
Reputation.
Resignation.
The Rich. Riches.
Ridicule.
Romances. Romantic Time of Life.
S.
Scholar.
Self-Interest.
Servants.
Shame. Shamelesness.
section
Sickness. Visiting the Sick.
Spiritual Pride.
Steward.
Stile in Writing.
Suicide.
Swearing and Cursing.
T.
Temptations.
section
section
Travelling.
Tutors.
Tythes.
V.
Vapourishness.
Vigilance.
Virtue. Chastity.
Voluptuousness.
section
W.
Wife.
Wit.
Writers.
X, Y.
Young Widows.
Youth.
A COLLECTION OF THE Moral and Instructive SENTIMENTS Contained in the History of CLARISSA.
A
Adversity. Affliction. Calamity. Misfortune.
Advice and Cautions to Women.
Air and Manner. Address.
Anger. Displeasure.
Apprehensions. Fear.
B.
Beauty. Figure.
Blushes. Blushing.
C.
Censure. Character.
Charity. Beneficence. Benevolence.
Church. Clergy.
Comedies. Tragedies. Music. Dancing.
Condescension.
Conscience. Consciousness.
Consolation.
Controul. Authority.
Covetousness. Avarice.
Courtship.
Credulity.
Cruelty. Hard-heartedness.
D.
Death. Dying.
Delicacy. Decency. Decorum.
Despondency. Despair.
Deviation.
Dignity. Quality.
Double Entendre.
Dress. Fashions. Elegance.
Duelling.
Duty. Obedience.
E.
Education.
Example.
Expectation.
Eyes.
F.
Faults. Folly. Failings. Error.
Favour.
Flattery. Compliments.
Fond. Fondness.
Forgiveness. Pardon.
Friendship.
G.
Gaming.
Generosity. Generous Minds.
Goodness. Grace.
Gratitude. Ingratitude.
Grief. Sorrow. Grievances.
Guilt. Vice. Wickedness. Evil Habits. Evil Courses.
H.
Happiness. Content.
Health.
Heart. Humanity.
Honesty.
Human Life.
Human Nature.
Humility.
Husband and Wife.
Hypocrisy.
I.
Ill-will. Envy. Hatred. Malice. Spite.
Imagination.
Inclination.
Indiscretion. Inconsiderateness. Presump|tion.
Infidel. Scoffer.
Innocence.
Insolence.
Judgment.
Justice. Injustice. Right. Wrong.
K.
Keepers. Keeping.
L.
Law. Lawyer.
Learning.
Libertine. Rake.
Little Spirits. Meanness. Narrowness.
Love.
Love at first Sight.
Lover.
M.
Magnanimity. Fortitude. Hope. Steadiness.
Marriage.
Masters. Mistresses. Servants.
Meekness.
Men and Women.
Merit. Demerit.
Minutiae.
Modesty. Audacity.
O.
Obligation. Oblige. Obliging Temper.
Obstinacy. Perverseness. Frowardness. Pert|ness.
General Observations and Reflexions.
Oeconomy. Frugality. Housewifry.
P.
Palliation. Evasion. Excuse.
Parents. Children.
Partiality. Impartiality.
Passions.
Patience. Impatience.
Pedants. Colleges.
Physic. Physicians.
Pity. Mercy.
Politeness. Travelling.
Political Precepts.
Poverty. Poor.
Power. Independence.
Praise. Dispraise. Applause. Blame.
Prejudice. Prepossession. Antipathy.
Pride.
Procuress. Profligate Women.
Prosperity. Success. Riches.
Providence.
Prudence. Wisdom. Discretion.
Purity.
R.
Rapes.
Reflections on Women.
Reformation. Conviction. Conversion.
Relations.
Religion. Piety. Devotion. Sabbath.
Remorse.
Repentance. Contrition.
Reprehension. Reproof. Correction.
Reputation.
Resentment.
Respect. Reverence.
Revenge.
S.
Satire.
Secrets. Curiosity.
Self. Self-Interest. Selfishness.
Sensuality.
Sickness. Infirmities.
Suspicion. Doubt. Jealousy.
T.
Tears.
Theory.
Thoughtfulness. Sensibility.
Tyranny.
V.
Vanity. Conceit. Affectation.
Vapours.
Veracity. Truth.
Violent Spirits.
Virtue. Virtuous. Principle.
Vivacity.
Vows. Curses. Oaths. Promises. Pro|testations.
W.
Widow.
Wills. Testators. Executors, &c.
Wit. Talents. Conversation.
Writers.
Y.
Youth.
A COLLECTION OF THE Moral and Instructive SENTIMENTS contained in the History of Sir C. GRANDISON.
A.
Absence.
Address to Men of Sense in the gay World.
Adversity. Calamity. Misfortune. Disap|pointment.
Advice and Cautions to Women.
Affectation.
section
Anger. Passion. Petulance. Wrath. Ill-will.
Artful Men.
Artful Women.
Avarice, Selfishness.
B.
Beauty. Beautiful.
Beneficence. Benevolence. Charity.
Ungraceful Benevolence.
section
C.
section
Censure. Censoriousness.
Challenges.
Chastity. Unchastity.
section
Charity in Judgment.
section
section
Compliments. Flattery.
Compulsion.
Concealments. Secrets. Communicative|ness.
Conceit. Obstinacy. Perverseness.
Conscience.
Consolation.
section
section
Courtship.
Courage.
section
Curiosity.
Custom.
D.
Daughters.
section
Delicacy.
section
section
section
section
section
Dreams. Superstition.
section
Duelling.
Duties Moral and Religious.
E.
section
Ebriety. Intemperance. Riot. False Shame.
Education.
section
Example.
Executor.
Extravagance. Profusion.
F.
Families decayed.
Fancy. Imagination. Romances.
Fashion. Dress. Novelty.
Female Dignity.
Femalities.
Fencing.
Filial Piety.
section
section
Forgivingness.
section
section
Frankness of Heart. Reserve.
Friendship. Friend.
G.
Gaming. Gamesters.
General Observations.
Generosity. Over-Generosity.
Girls.
section
Good. Goodness.
Good Man. Man of Honour. Honest Man.
Good Wife. Good Woman.
Gratitude. Ingratitude.
Grief. Melancholy. Tears.
Guardian. Guardianship. Ward.
H.
Happiness. Unhappiness.
section
Honour. Glory. Punctilio, Reputation.
Hospital for Female Penitents.
Humanity.
Human Nature.
Humility.
section
Husband and Wife.
I.
Jealousy.
section
section
Indulgence.
Inferiority, Superiority of the two Sexes.
Ingenuousness. Impartiality. Justice.
section
Innocence. Innocent.
section
section
section
section
Justices of Peace.
K.
section
Kept Women. Keeper. Keeping. Guilty Attachment.
Kindred.
L.
section
section
Law. Lawyers.
Learning. Learners. Languages. Science. University.
Learned Women.
Libertines. Rakes.
Love.
Love at first Sight. Cupidity. Paphian Love.
First Love.
Lover.
Dismission or Refusal of a Lover.
M.
Magnanimity. Spirit. Fortitude.
section
Marriages.
Marriage in advanced Years, and with an In|equality as to Age.
Clandestine Marriages. Inferior Marriages. Fortune-Hunters.
Marriage Treaties. Settlements.
Marriage Proposals.
Masters. Mistresses. Servants.
Matrimonial Bickerings.
Matronly State.
Meannesses.
Mediation.
section
Men and Women.
Military Men.
Mirth. Joy. Laughter.
Miscellaneous Observations.
section
section
Modesty. Decorum.
N.
New-married Woman. Wedded Love.
section
Nuptial Preparations. Wedding-Day.
O.
section
Oeconomy. Early Rising.
Old Bachelors. Old Maids.
P.
section
Parents and Children.
Parliament Men.
Partiality.
The Passions.
section
Penitence. Reformation. Remorse. Con|trition.
Persuasion. Forced Marriages.
section
section
Physicians. Surgeons.
section
Pity. Compassion.
Platonic Love.
Poets.
Polite. Politeness. Elegance.
Praise. Self-Praise. Dispraise.
section
section
section
Protestant Nunneries.
Protestations. Professions. Promises. Vows.
Prudence. Discretion. Wise Men.
Prudery. Coquetry.
Public Places. Modern fine Ladies and Gentle|men. Depravity of Times and Manners. Racketing.
section
Q. R.
section
section
section
Recommendation.
Recrimination. Reproof.
section
Religion. Piety.
section
section
section
section
Retribution.
Ridicule. Humour. Raillery.
section
S.
section
section
section
Seduction.
section
Self-Partiality.
section
Sentiments.
section
section
Signs of Love.
Sincerity. Insincerity.
Single Women.
section
Step-mother. Mother-in-law.
Suicide.
section
section
section
Susceptibilities.
Suspense.
T.
Taste.
section
Temptation.
Travellers. Travelling.
V.
Vanity. Birth. Descent. Pride.
Vice. Wicked. Wickedness.
Vincibility of Love.
Virtue.
section
section
section
section
W.
section
section
section
section
Widows.
Last Wills. Funerals.
section
Wit. Witty Men. Witty Women.
The World. This World.
section
X, Y.
Youth. Young Men.
Z.
Zeal. Zealous.
table of contents
TABLE to the SENTIMENTS, &c. Extracted from The HISTORY of PAMELA.
TABLE to the SENTIMENTS, &c. Extracted from The HISTORY of CLARISSA.
TABLE to the SENTIMENTS, &c. Extracted from The HISTORY of Sir CH. GRANDISON.
By Desire, the Two following LETTERS are inserted here.
Copy of LETTER to a LADY, who was solicitous for an additional volume to the HISTORY of Sir CHARLES GRANDISON; supposing it ended abruptly, and expressing herself desirous to see Sir CHARLES in the Parental Cha|racter; and to know if the Story were intended to be carried further.
ANSWER to a LETTER from a FRIEND, who had objected to Sir CHARLES GRANDISON's Offer to allow his Daughters by Lady CLEMENTINA, had his Marriage with her taken Effect, to be educated Roman Catholics.