OBSERVATIONS

ON SOME OF THE

CHIEF DIFFICULTIES & DISADVANTAGES

OF

ENGLISH SOCIETY,

WITH

SUGGESTIONS FOR THEIR REMEDY.

BY

GEORGE KNIGHT.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY HARVEY AND DARTON,

GRACECHURCH STREET.

1829.

831.

BODI

LONDON:

R. CLAY, PRINTER, DEVONSHIRE STREET,

BISHOPSGATE.

DEDICATION

PREFACE

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

AN INQUIRY INTO THE MEANS OF PROCURING ABUNDANCE

FOR THE DESTITUTE,-RESPECTABILITY FOR THE DE-

GRADED, USEFULNESS FOR THE MISCHIEVOUS, AND

HAPPINESS FOR ALL,-THROUGH THE MEDIUMS OF

VIRTUE FOR THE VICIOUS AND INDUSTRY FOR THE

IDLE

The unhappiness of man chiefly acquired and but little
inherent in his nature or inseparable from what his
circumstances would be if regulated by so much of
good in his feelings and conduct as the bounteous
Source of Good has offered to each and to all the power
of attaining to.

Suggestions for the means of neutralizing our unhap-

piness by availing ourselves of the blessings that are

offered for our acceptance and the means which are also

afforded for the avoidance of evil to ourselves and

others.

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