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CONTENTS

BOOK II. THE RENAISSANCE

(Continued)

CHAPTER FIFTH

The Christian Renaissance

I. Decay of the Southern Civilizations...

II.-Luther and the Reformation in Germany.

III.-The Reformation in England...

IV. The Anglicans

V.-The Puritans

VI.-John Bunyan

CHAPTER SIXTH

Milton

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3

7

14

34

45

58

II-A Frenchman's View of the Manners of the Time.

135

III.-Butler's Hudibras

137

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VI. Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar...

188

VII. How Literature in England is occupied with Politics and

Religion ...

257

VIII.-Development of the Art of Writing..

263

IX. Dryden's Translations and Adaptations.-His Occasional

II. Brutality of the People.-Private Morals.-Chesterfield

and Gay

273

III.-Principles of Civilization in France and England.

281

IV.

Religion

286

V. The Pulpit

292

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VI.-Theology

VII.-The Constitution.-Locke's Theory of Government.

VIII.-Parliamentary Orators

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300

305

311

IX.-Doctrines of the French Revolution Contrasted with the

Conservative Tendencies of the English People......... 320

CHAPTER FOURTH

Addison

I.—The Significance of the Writings of Addison and Swift.... 327

II.-Addison's Character and Education.....

327

III.-Addison's Seriousness.-His Nobility of Character...

IV. The Morality of Addison's Essays....

333

336

V.-How Addison made Morality Fashionable.-Characteristics

of his Style

344

VI.-Addison's Gallantry.-His Humor.-Sir Roger de Cover-

ley. The Vision of Mirza.....

349

III.-The Evolution of the Eighteenth Century Novel.

410

Fac-simile example of Printing and Engraving in the Fifteenth Century

Fac-simile example of Printing and Engraving in the Fifteenth Century