Selections from the correspondence of R.E.H. Greyson, esq. [pseud.]

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Index

Anecdotes of Convalescents	1

To the Same On a Law of Association	5

IIL To die Same A Novel Expedient	8

Ne Sutor	10

To the Same On DeathBed Consolations	14

VI To Mrs C R On the Loss of an Infant	18

To C MasonEsq QueryCondolence or Congratulation? Anecdote of a Miser i 1	23

To the Same Speculations on Avarice Anecdote	25

To Alfred West Esq A Dream	210

To the Same Thoughts on Emigration	214

To the Rev J S Missionary in India	217

To Alfred West Esq On a pedantic Author	221

To Mrs L B a Friend in New Zealand	223

To Alfred West Esq On the Essentials of Friendship	228

To tlie Same On the Love of Contradiction	233

LettE Paoe LXV To C Mason Esq Mountains versus Books	237

To his Sister Mrs Evans in India A Letter of Home Gossip Early Experiences	27

To C Mason Esq Old Age sometimes Beautiful	34

To the Same An Amateur Physician	36

XIL To the Rev Charles Ellis B D Solutions that are none	38

To C Mason EsqOn the Penny Postage	43

To Alfred West Esq Description of a hustling Man	44

To the Same On the Language of Emotions	47

often none	56

To C Mason Esq	60

To Captain Evans in India English GodManufacturers Effects of Civilisation	63

To The Delights of Reconciliation Anecdote	65

To Edwin Greyson Esq	68

To T Greyson Letter of Counsels to a Youth	69

To Alfred West Esq On the Freaks of Association	72

To the Same Societies and Branches	75

To the Same Speculations on compulsory Virtue	77

To the Same Strikes Estimate of Knowledge	81

To the Same Anecdote of Robert Hall Human Pugnacity	84

To the Same On unjust Suspicions Job and his Friends	87

To the Same Antediluvian Friendships Immortality	91

To a Friend who had narrowly escaped spending a Night in St Albans Abbey On the Power of Imagination	94

To Alfred West Esq What are the best Punishments of Hypocrisy?	100

To the Same Parental Longsuffering the second School ing for Vice	103

To the Rev C Ellis B D Christian Evidences	106

To the Rev S W On Pulpit Style	115

To C MasonEsq Habitual ActionsAutomatic or Not?	118

To the Same Early RisingPreaching and Practice	122

To the Same A Dialogue between Myself and Me	126

To Miss Mary Greyson The first of Four Letters on Novel Reading	131

To the Same Subject continued	139

To the Same Subject continued	142

To the Same On Yes and No	147

To Alfred West Esq On the Treatment of Criminals	153

To C Mason Esq The Madman and the Devil	157

To First of Five Letters to an incipient Neo logist	161

f XLVL To the Same Subject continued	164

XLVII To the Same Subject continued	168

XLVIII To the Same Subject continued	172

To the Same Subject continued	174

To Letter on Prayer	177

To the Stme Subject continued	182

To First of Three Letters on the Atonement	188

LUX To the Same Subject continued	194

To Alfred West Esq Symptoms of imperfect Virtue	198

To the Same Unconscious Profundity	201

To C Mason Esq On Human Inconsistencies	207

To Esq Counsels to a Dyspeptic Friend	240

To R S A Question on Conscience answered	244

ro On a Sophism of Secularism	247

To a Homoeopathic Friend First of Three Letters to a Homoeopathist	249

To the Same Subject continued	254

To the Same Subject continued	258

To Alfred West Esq Feats of the Electric Telegraph	262

To a Mesmeric Enthusiast First of Three Letters to a Mesmeric Enthusiast	266

To the Same Subject continued	269

To the Same Subject continued T	272

LXXVL To the Rev C Ellis Contretemps	276

To the Same Subject continued	280

LXXVHX To C Mason Esq On the Memoirs of a Stomach	282

To R D a Quaker On the Peace Principles	285

To Alfred West Esq On the Peace Principles	289

LXXXL To the Rev Charles Ellis B D On the Arguments for Immortality	294

To the Same On coming to the Use of Spectacles	298

To On Behalf a Young Offender Visit to the Zoological Gardens	303

LXXX1V To the Rev C Ellis Reformatories	305

To Alfred West Esq AngloSaxon Criminal Code	311

To the Same Sedatives of Anger Youthful Hopes	313

To tlie Same On the Plurality of Worlds Controversy	316

To the Same Subject continued	321

To the Rev C Ellis A double Defeat and no Victory Dispute between an Atheist and a Deist	324

To the Same Subject continued	328

To a Friend who had become a DeistFirst of Eight Letters to a Deist	336

To the Same Subject continued	340

To the Same Subject continued	343

To the Same Subject continued	349

To the Same Subject continued	351

To the Same Subject continued	356

To the Same Subject continued	362

XCV1TL To the Same Subject continued	364

To C Mason Esq On the Discoveries of Dr Hassalls Microscope	369

To Alfred West Esq True Catholicism	372

To C Mason Esq On Beards	375

To a Gentleman who would be a Christianyet rejected all the peculiar facts and Doctrines of historical Christianity 378	378

To a Young Friend disposed to make the Discrepancies in Scripture a Reason for Renouncing Christianity	384

To the Same Subject continued	389

To Alfred West Esq Transmutation and Develop ment Theories	394

To the Same Subject continued	397

To the Same Subject continued	401

To his Nephew T G Student in the University of Edinburgh The Prima Philosophia	407

To the Same Hints for an Encomium Atheismi	414

To the Same Notice of certain Atheistical Sophisms	420

To the Same Brief Answers to Three Queries	428

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Title	Selections from the correspondence of R.E.H. Greyson, esq. [pseud.]
Author	Henry Rogers
Edition	3
Publisher	Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	24 Apr 2008
Length	432 pages
Subjects	History › United States › General History / United States / General Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General

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