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The Vicar of Wakefield
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- about 229
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- Literature & Fiction
- Language
- English
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From the opening
Chapter VII. A town wit described. The dullest fellows may learn to be
comical for a night or two
Chapter VIII. An amour, which promises little good fortune, yet may be
productive of much
Chapter IX. Two ladies of great distinction introduced. Superior finery
ever seems to confer superior breeding
Chapter X. The family endeavours to cope with their betters. The
miseries of the poor when they attempt to appear above their
circumstances
Chapter XII. Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wakefield.
Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities
Chapter XIII. Mr Burchell is found to be an enemy; for he has the
confidence to give disagreeable advice
Chapter XIV. Fresh mortifications, or a demonstration that seeming
calamities may be real blessings
Chapter XV. All Mr Burchell’s villainy at once detected. The folly of
being-over-wise
Chapter XVII. Scarce any virtue found to resist the power of long and
pleasing temptation
Chapter XVIII. The pursuit of a father to reclaim a lost child to virtue
Chapter XIX. The description of a Person discontented with the present
government, and apprehensive of the loss of our liberties
Chapter XX. The history of a philosophic vagabond, pursuing novelty,
but losing content
Chapter XXI. The short continuance of friendship among the vicious,
which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction
Chapter XXV. No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some sort
of comfort attending it
Chapter XXVI. A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete, they
should reward as well as punish
Chapter XXVIII. Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence than
of virtue in this life. Temporal evils or felicities being regarded by
heaven as things merely in themselves trifling and unworthy its care in
the distribution
Chapter XXIX. The equal dealings of providence demonstrated with regard
to the happy and the miserable here below. That from the nature of
pleasure and pain, the wretched must be repaid the balance of their
sufferings in the life hereafter
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