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Nicol, Alexander

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TO THE HONOURABLE JAMES HALYBURTON of Pitcur, Esq; Member of Parliament of Orkney and Shetland, and Colonel of the Third Regiment of Foot-Guards, &c.
  
PREFACE.
  
To the Author, on his Collection of Miscellany Poems.
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NATURE without ART.
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NATURE without ART.
  
An Invocation to the heavenly Muse.
  
Forty five Wonders; or, an Imitation of a Pamphlet of moral sayings, called, A Book of Fives, or five and forty Wonders.
  
Alphabetical Verses on the Life of MAN, being eight Verses annexed to each Letter.
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The four Seasons of the Year compared to the four Ages of Man's Life, viz. Infancy, Childhood or Youth, Manhood, and old Age.
  
A Meditation at the Communion-table.
  
On the Fall of Man.
  
To the holy Trinity, on the Redemption of Man.
  
A Meditation for a Traveller.
  
Upon the WORLD.
  
A Meditation for a Fast-day before the Communion.
  
A Lamentation, &c.
  
The contented Christian, or the Christian's Content.
  
A Soliloquy for an unregenerate Sinner.
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A BUNDLE OF FLOWERS FOR CHILDREN:
  
To my young Reader.
  
The First Chapter of Genesis.
  
A Meditation on the Second Chapter of Genesis.
  
VERSES upon the most remarkable Men and Women mentioned in the BIBLE.
  
[Methuselah liv'd to the greatest age]
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REMARKS.
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Fifty Golden Verses.
  
An ACROSTIC.
  
An ACROSTIC.
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An Epistle, or New-year's Gift, to a young Merchant in Perth, January 1st 1751.
  
The Brevity of Human Life.
  
The Eighth Chapter of Solomon's Proverbs.
  
The Love of Christ, An Hymn.
  
An Hymn on Death.
  
Hymn for a Fellowship Meeting.
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THE CHILD's COMPANION; IN A NATURAL DIALOGUE BETWIXT A Child and One of riper Years: Useful for Young Ones.
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KING SOLOMON's BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES, IN METRE.

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IV.

A rogue detected by proof rightly led,
Reason for him can no excuses plead:
As is his crime so must his sentence be;
It is unjust to let a rogue go free;
For, when he's punish'd, others may take care,
And not involve themselves into the snare.
Sure rogues are plagues unto society;
So reason says, that ev'ry rogue should die.
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