In these letters I have acted as pilot for a first voyage through what is
to a boy an uncharted sea, after which I hope and believe he will have
learned happily to steer for himself among the islands of the blest.
S.C.
THE FORD,
CHOBHAM.
CONTENTS
1. ON GOOD AND BAD STYLE IN PROSE
2. ON THE GLORY OF THE BIBLE
3. SIR WALTER RALEIGH
4. ACT OF PARLIAMENT, 1532
5. THE JUDICIOUS HOOKER AND SHAKESPEARE
6. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CREWE
7. SIR THOMAS BROWNE AND MILTON
8. JEREMY TAYLOR
9. EVELYN'S DIARY
10. JOHN BUNYAN
11. DR. JOHNSON
12. EDMUND BURKE
13. GIBBON
14. HENRY GRATTAN AND MACAULAY
15. LORD ERSKINE
16. ROBERT HALL
17. LORD PLUNKET
18. ROBERT SOUTHEY
19. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
20. LORD BROUGHAM
21. SIR WILLIAM NAPIER
22. RICHARD SHEIL
23. THOMAS CARLYLE
24. HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE
25. CARDINAL NEWMAN
26. LORD MACAULAY AGAIN
27. PRESIDENT LINCOLN
28. JOHN RUSKIN
29. JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
30. MATTHEW ARNOLD
31. SIR WILLIAM BUTLER
32. LORD MORLEY
33. HILAIRE BELLOC
34. KING GEORGE THE FIFTH
35. CONCLUSION
LETTERS TO MY GRANDSON
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MY DEAR ANTONY,
The letters which I wrote "On the world about you" having shown you
that throughout all the universe, from the blazing orbs in infinite space
to the tiny muscles of an insect's wing, perfect design is everywhere
manifest, I hope and trust that you will never believe that so
magnificent a process and order can be without a Mind of which it is the
visible expression.
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