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Start of eBook	1
VOL. III	1
AVERROES 1126-1198	1
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	3
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS	3
VIGNETTE PORTRAITS	3
(Continued from Volume II)	3
THE FIRST FALSE STEP	6
THE NEW HOME AND THE OLD ONE	9
THE COURT PHYSICIAN’S PHILOSOPHY	17
IN COUNTESS IRMA’S DIARY	20
EMILE AUGIER	25
A CONVERSATION WITH A PURPOSE	26
A SEVERE YOUNG JUDGE	30
A CONTENTED IDLER	31
THE FEELINGS OF AN ARTIST	33
A CONTEST OF WILLS	35
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO	37
BY SAMUEL HART	37
THE GODLY SORROW THAT WORKETH REPENTANCE	39
CONSOLATION	40
THE FOES OF THE CITY	41
THE PRAISE OF GOD	42
A PRAYER	42
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS	43
BY JAMES FRASER GLUCK	43
EXCERPTS FROM THE ‘MEDITATIONS’	49
THE SUPREME NOBILITY OF DUTY	50
THE FUTURE LIFE. IMMORTALITY	50
THE UNIVERSAL BEAUTY OF THE WORLD	52
THE GOOD MAN	52
THE BREVITY OF LIFE	53
VANITY OF LIFE	53
DEATH	54
FAME	54
PRAYER	54
FAITH	55
PAIN	55
LOVE AND FORGIVENESS FOR THE EVIL-DOER	55
ETERNAL CHANGE THE LAW OF THE UNIVERSE	55
THE PERFECT LIBERTY OF THE GOOD MAN	56
THE HARMONY AND UNITY OF THE UNIVERSE	56
THE CONDUCT OF LIFE	56
JANE AUSTEN	61
AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE	66
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER	69
A LETTER OF CONDOLENCE	71
MR. COLLINS TO MR. BENNET, ON HIS DAUGHTER’S ELOPEMENT WITH A RAKE	71
A WELL-MATCHED SISTER AND BROTHER	72
FAMILY DOCTORS	77
FAMILY TRAINING	81
PRIVATE THEATRICALS	83
FRUITLESS REGRETS AND APPLES OF SODOM	85
AVERROES	89
THE AVESTA	93
BY A.V. WILLIAMS JACKSON	93
A PSALM OF ZOROASTER: YASNA 30	97
A PRAYER FOR KNOWLEDGE	100
THE ANGEL OF DIVINE OBEDIENCE	101
TO THE FIRE	101
THE GODDESS OF THE WATERS	102
GUARDIAN SPIRITS	102
AN ANCIENT SINDBAD	103
THE WISE MAN	103
INVOCATION TO RAIN	103
A PRAYER FOR HEALING	104
FRAGMENT	104
AVICEBRON	104
ON MATTER AND FORM	107
ROBERT AYTOUN	110
WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN	112
A BALL IN THE UPPER CIRCLES	122
A HIGHLAND TRAMP	124
MASSIMO TAPARELLI D’AZEGLIO	126
A HAPPY CHILDHOOD	127
THE PRIESTHOOD	130
MY FIRST VENTURE IN ROMANCE	133
BABER	135
BY EDWARD S. HOLDEN	135
FROM BABER’S ‘MEMOIRS’	136
BABRIUS	140
FRANCIS BACON	146
BY CHARLTON T. LEWIS	146
OF TRUTH	160
OF REVENGE	161
OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION	162
OF TRAVEL	164
OF FRIENDSHIP	166
DEFECTS OF THE UNIVERSITIES	171
TO MY LORD TREASURER BURGHLEY	175
IN PRAISE OF KNOWLEDGE	176
TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR, TOUCHING THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN	179
TO VILLIERS ON HIS PATENT AS VISCOUNT	181
CHARGE TO JUSTICE HUTTON	182
A PRAYER, OR PSALM	183
FROM THE ‘APOPHTHEGMS’	184
WALTER BAGEHOT	186
BY FORREST MORGAN	186
THE VIRTUES OF STUPIDITY	192
REVIEW WRITING	193
LORD ELDON	194
TASTE	194
CAUSES OF THE STERILITY OF LITERATURE	195
THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS	196
ON EARLY READING	197
THE CAVALIERS	199
MORALITY AND FEAR	200
THE TYRANNY OF CONVENTION	201
HOW TO BE AN INFLUENTIAL POLITICIAN	202
CONDITIONS OF CABINET GOVERNMENT	203
WHY EARLY SOCIETIES COULD NOT BE FREE	204
BENEFITS OF FREE DISCUSSION IN MODERN TIMES	207
ORIGIN OF DEPOSIT BANKING	210
JENS BAGGESEN	212
A COSMOPOLITAN	214
PHILOSOPHY ON THE HEATH	215
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY	218
JOANNA BAILLIE	225
HENRY MARTYN BAIRD	237
THE BATTLE OF IVRY	238
SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER	241
HUNTING IN ABYSSINIA	242
THE SOURCES OF THE NILE	248
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR	249
THE PLEASURES OF READING	250
THE BALLAD	264
BY F.B. GUMMERE	264
HONORE DE BALZAC	292
BY WILLIAM P. TRENT	292
THE MEETING IN THE CONVENT	310
A PASSION IN THE DESERT	337
FROM ‘THE COUNTRY DOCTOR’	347
GEORGE BANCROFT	363
BY AUSTIN SCOTT	363
THE BEGINNINGS OF VIRGINIA	368
MEN AND GOVERNMENT IN EARLY MASSACHUSETTS	370
KING PHILIP’S WAR	372
THE NEW NETHERLAND	373
FRANKLIN	375

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