The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature: A Collection of Essays, Narratives, Allegories, and Instructive Compositions

S. Hodgson, 1806 - 340 pages

On an excessive and indiscriminate love of company	5

On virtue	13

Family disagreements the frequent cause of immoral conduct	20

The necessity of forming religious principles at an early age	30

The balance of happiness equal	36

The acquisition of a virtuous disposition a necessary part	43

On the advantages of conversation	49

Damon and Pythias	58

The history of Joseph abridged	175

On extravagance	181

Scene between Col Rivers and Sir Harry	191

Story of Melissa continued	200

On hope	209

On the advantages derivable from national adversity	217

On the importance of governing the temper	223

The story of Abbas	229

On goodnature	64

On betraying private conversation	72

On a classical education	79

The two bees	86

The story of Le Fevre	92

Albert Bane	103

On education	109

Nancy Collins	115

The arts of deceiving conscience	119

The story of Maria from Sterne	126

The want of piety arises from the want of sensibility	132

The distresses of a modest	139

The story of Dionysius the tyrant	145

The vision of Theodore continued	155

The grateful Turk	161

On the respect paid by the Lacedemonians and Athenians	168

On the importance of a good character considered only	236

On impudence and modesty	246

On the beauty and happiness of an open behaviour and	255

The resignation of the Emperor Charles V	263

On goodbreeding	269

Gentleness of manners with firmness or resolution of mind	276

An epigram	288

With a present	295

My mother	301

The wounded soldier	307

Lessons of wisdom	315

Invocation to harmony	321

To the memory of Major Alderton	327

Translation of Hanmers epitaph	333

On the loss of the Royal George	339

Title	The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature: A Collection of Essays, Narratives, Allegories, and Instructive Compositions
Author	Solomon Hodgson
Editor	Solomon Hodgson
Compiled by	Solomon Hodgson
Illustrated by	Thomas Bewick, Luke Clennell
Edition	3
Publisher	S. Hodgson, 1806
Length	340 pages

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