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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