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SERIES

OF

POPULAR ESSAYS,

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

PRINCIPLES ESSENTIALLY CONNECTED

WITH THE IMPROVEMENT

OF THE UNDERSTANDING, THE IMAGINATION,
AND THE HEART.

BY ELIZABETH HAMILTON,

AUTHOR OF LETTERS ON THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF
EDUCATION, COTTAGERS of GlenBURNIE, &c.

Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part :

Do thou but thine, and be not diffident

Of Wisdom; she deserts thee not, if thou
Dismiss not her.-

MILTON.

VOLUME II.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR MANNERS AND MILLER;

AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; AND
T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, LONDON.

CONTENTS.

ESSAY. IV.

ON THE PROPENSITY TO MAGNIFY THE

IDEA OF SELF.

CHAPTER VI.

Ambition.

On the desire of power, as influenced by the selfish

principle. Connexion between these illustrated.

Consequences of ambition. Examples.

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CHAPTER VII.

Operation of the selfish principle in the spirit of

party. Examples. Effects of party-spirit illus-

trated,

CHAPTER VIII.

Origin of idolatry. Pagan superstition. Sects of

philosophy. Doctrines taught in the heathen

schools favourable to the indulgence of the sel-

fish principle,

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