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- CHAPTER I
The Description of the Family of Wakefield, in Which Kindred Likeness Prevails, as Well of Minds as of Persons..............................................3 - CHAPTER II
Family Misfortunes-The Loss of Fortune Only Serves to Increase the Pride of the Worthy ...................10 - CHAPTER III
A Migration-The Fortunate Circumstances of ou Lives are Generally Found at Last to Be of Our own Procuring............................................ 16 - CHAPTER IV
A Proof That Even the Humblest Fortune May Grant Happiness, Which Depends not on Circumstances but Constitution......................................... 27 -
CHAPTER V
A New and Great Acquaintance Introduced-What we Place Most Hopes upon Generally Proves Most Fatal.... 33 -
CHAPTER VI
The Happiness of a Country Fireside 39 -
CHAPTER VII
A Town Wit Described-The Dullest Fellows may Learn to be Comical for a Night or Two............... 45 -
CHAPTER VIII
An Amour Which Promises Little Good Fortune; yet May Be Productive of Much............................ 52 -
CHAPTER IX
Two Ladies of Great Distinction Introduced-Superior Finery Ever Seems to Confer Superior Breeding........ 62 -
CHAPTER X
The Family Endeavors to Cope with Their Betters- The Miseries of the Poor When they Attempt to Appear above Their Circumstances..................... 67 -
CHAPTER XI
The Family Still Resolve to Hold Up Their Heads........ 73 -
CHAPTER XII
Fortune Seems Resolved to Humble the Family of Wakefield-Mortifications are Often More Painful than Real Calamities..................................81 -
CHAPTER XIII
Mr. Burchell is Found to Be an Enemy; for He Has the Confidence to Give Disagreeable Advice......................89 -
CHAPTER XIV
Fresh Mortifications, or a Demonstration that Seeming Calamities May Be Real Blessings............................94 -
CHAPTER XV
All Mr. Burchell's Villainy at Once Detected-The Folly of Being Over-Wise....................................104 -
CHAPTER XVI
The Family Use Art; Which is Opposed with Still Greater.....................................................111 -
CHAPTER XVII
Scarcely Any Virtue Found to Resist the Power of Long and Pleasing Temptation................................120 -
CHAPTER XVIII
The Pursuit of a Father to Reclaim a Lost Child to Virtue......................................................132 -
CHAPTER XIX
The Description of a Person Discontented with the Present Government, and Apprehensive of the Loss of Our Liberties............................................139 -
CHAPTER XX
The History of a Philosophic Vagabond, Pursuin Novelty, but Losing Content.................................151 -
CHAPTER XXI
The Short Continuance of Friendship among the Vicious, Which is Coeval only with Mutual Satisfac- tion.........................................................173 -
CHAPTER XXII
Offences are Easily Pardoned Where There is Love at Bottom.......................................................185 -
CHAPTER XXIII
None but the Guilty can be Long and Completely Miserable....................................................192 -
CHAPTER XXIV
Fresh Calamities...............................................200 -
CHAPTER XXV
No Situation, However Wretched It Seems, but Has Some Sort of Comfort Attending It............................207 -
CHAPTER XXVI
A Reformation in the Gaol-To Make Laws Complete They Should Reward as well as Punish.........................214 -
CHAPTER XXVII
The Same Subject Continued.....................................222 -
CHAPTER XXVIII
Happiness and Misery Rather the Result of Prudence than of Virtue in this Life-Temporal Evils or Feli- cities Being Regarded by Heaven as Things Merel in Themselves Trifling, and Unworthy Its Care in the Distribution.............................................228 -
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.......................243 -
CHAPTER XXX
Happier Prospects Begin to Appear-Let Us Be Inflexible and Fortune Will at Last Change in Our Favor..................................................250 -
CHAPTER XXXI
Former Benevolence Now Repaid with Unexpected Interest...............................................262 -
CHAPTER XXXII
The Conclusion...........................................283 - THE DESERTED VILLAGE.....................................291
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