On the School of Life......

On the Value of Life

Life's Consolation in View of Death

The Problem of Life resolved in the Life of Christ..

355

363

371

379

On the Shortness of Life.

Reflections at the Close of Day

On Religion, as the Great Sentiment of Life

On the Religion of Life

387

394

400

408

On the Identity of Religion with Goodness and with a Good Life.

The Call of Humanity, and the Answer to it

430

442

... 450

Passage across the Atlantic-The Old World — Liverpool — Chester-

North Wales-Conway-Caernarvon-Llanberis-Scenery of Wales— 593

CHAPTER II.

Dublin-Drogheda - Belfast - Giant's Causeway

CHAPTER III.

Scotland-Edinburgh- Excursion to the Highlands-Stirling - The

Trossacks-Loch Katrine-Loch Lomond - Hamilton-Lanark-

Abbotsford-Melrose and Dryburgh Abbeys

England York - Kendal - Windermere - Ambleside Grassmere

Keswick-Ullswater-The Lake Scenery

602

607

617

CHAPTER V.

Railway from Liverpool-Manchester-Derbyshire-Chatsworth-Haddon

Hall-Matlock--Lichfield-Birmingham-Kenilworth-Warwick-

Stratford on Avon-Shakspeare

CHAPTER VI.

Blenheim-Oxford, its Colleges and Chapels-National Health-Ill Health

of our People in America-Causes — Remedies

CHAPTER VII.

Slough --Windsor Castle - Church Establishment in England - Effect of

an Establishment upon the Character of the Clergy- Position of the

Clergy in America

CHAPTER VIII.

France - Belgium - Brussels - Field of Waterloo - Aix la Chapelle-

Cologne-Bonn-Mayence-Valley of the Rhine-Frankfort on the

Maine-Darmstadt-Heidelberg.

CHAPTER IX.

Switzerland-Schaffhausen-Observance of the Sabbath on the Continent-

Falls of the Rhine-Zurich-Zug-Righi-Lucerne - Thun

CHAPTER X.

Page

625

633

638

648

658

The Oberland-Lake of Thun-Unterseen and Interlaken-Valley of

Lauterbrunnen - Jungfrau — Grindelwald - The Glacier-Berne—

Lake of Neufchatel-Castle Grandson-Yverdun-Lausanne-Geneva 666

CHAPTER XI.

Chamouni and Mont Blanc-Chillon-Upper Valley of the Rhone-Sion-

The Simplon Road-Lake Maggiore — Islands of Madre and Bella ... 674

CHAPTER XII.

Milan-Plains of Lombardy-Parma-Sabbath Scenes-Music-Bologna

- Covigliajo........

CHAPTER XIII.

Florence - The Pitti Palace-Mode and Expense of Living in Italy-

Gallery of Florence - Churches of Florence- Fiesole Cloisters—

Monks-Holy Days.

CHAPTER XIV.

Rome-Upper Vale of the Arno - Arezzo - Vale of the Clitumnus —

Terni-Civita Castellana-First sight of Rome

CHAPTER XV.

Entrance to Rome-First Impressions- A Glance at St. Peter's and the

Forum-The Appian Way-Fountain of Egeria-The Coliseum by

Moonlight-The Esquiline Hill ...............................

CHAPTER XVI.

685

694

706

710

Ascent to the Top of St. Peter's-Michael Angelo's Last Judgment—

Tivoli-Temples of Vesta, and the Tiburtine Sibyl-Villa of Adrian 714

CHAPTER XVII.

Vatican-Raphael's Transfiguration-Domenichino's Communion of St.

Jerome The Raphael Chambers-The Dying Gladiator

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CHAPTER XVIII.

Vatican Museum of Statues and Ancient Remains-Apollo Belvedere-

English College-Mamertine Prison- Garden of Sallust - Thor-

walsden's Paintings- Guido's Archangel Michael - Spectacle at S.

Maria Maggiore - Christmas-Service at St. Peter's

CHAPTER XIX.

Page

Temple of Fortuna Muliebris-Catacombs-College of the Propaganda -

The Apollo and Laocoon-Walks out of Rome-Fountains and

Obelisks..

CHAPTER XX.

727

St. Peter's-Mosaic Copies of Paintings-Services in the Chapel of the

Propaganda-St. Onofrio-Cardinal Fesch's Gallery of Paintings—

Academy of St. Luke-Blessing the Horses-Churches of Rome...... 732

The Roman Catholic System

CHAPTER XXI.

CHAPTER XXII.

Journey to Naples-Bay of Naples-Vesuvius-Herculaneum--Pompeii-

Tomb of Virgil-Leghorn-Pisa-Genoa-Political State of Italy-

Italy the Land of the Fine Arts-The Fine Arts in America............

CHAPTER XXIII.

France-Marseilles-Avignon-Lyons-Paris-Versailles-Père la Chaise

-

- Sevres-Gobelin Tapestry-St. Cloud-Recreations

CHAPTER XXIV.

Paris to London-Malle Poste-Steamboat-American Boats and Ships

compared with the English-Panorama of London-Chantry's Studio

- The Tower-Tunnel-Greenwich Fair

CHAPTER XXV.

The Aristocratic System-Its essential Injustice-Tory Argument in reply,

considered

CHAPTER XXVI.

The Republican System-American Republicanism-Nature of Liberty-

Mobs-Trades Unions-Free Institutions a severe trial of Character-

Consequent Duties

CHAPTER XXVII.

Journey to Liverpool - Sensitiveness of Americans to Public Opinion

abroad-Farewell to England-Passage to America .

738

747

757

770

774

785

Discourse at the Dedication of the Church of the Messiah, in Broadway,

New York

824

Discourses on the Character and Writings of W. E. Channing, D.D.

Erroneous Views of Death, with Suggestions towards their Removal

American Morals and Manners

836

852

867

DISCOURSES

ON

VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

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THE FIRST CHURCH AND CONGREGATION

IN

NEW BEDFORD,

These Discourses,

ORIGINALLY PREPARED FOR THEIR BENEFIT,

ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED,

BY THEIR

LATE PASTOR AND EVer obliged FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.