No. I.
On the Education of Youth in America.
Page
_General Remarks._ 1
_Division of the Subject. Attention to the Dead Languages._ 3
_Study of the English Language necessary._ 7
_Use of the Bible in Skools._ 8
_Study of Mathematics._ 9
_Diversity of Studies in the same Skool._ 10
_Local Situation of Colleges and Academies._ 11
_On classing Students._ 13
_Of good Instructors._ 15
_Fatal Effects of employing Men of low Karacters in Skools._ 18
_What Books should be read in Skools._ 23
_On public Skools--their Importance in a free Guvernment._ 24
_On the Education of Females._ 27
_On a foreign Education._ 30
_The Tour of America, a necessary Part of a liberal Education._ 35
No. II.
Principles of Guvernment and Commerce.
_Origin of Guvernment._ 38
_Of Representation._ _ibid._
_Of the Executiv and Judicial Powers._ 39
_Distinction between Laws and legislativ Grants and Contracts._ 40
_Of collecting Debts by Law, and of Money._ 42
_Of Public Justice._ 43
No. III.
On Bills or Declarations of Rights.
_Necessity and Advantages of such Declarations in England._ 45
_Bills of Rights not necessary in America._ 46
No. IV.
On Guvernment.
_Of the Distinction between a Convention and Legislature._ 49
No. V.
_The Subject continued, with a Consideration of Mr. Jefferson's
Arguments in Favor of an unalterable Constitution._ 59
No. VI.
_The Subject continued. That the Freemen of a State hav no Right
to bind their Representativs in Legisture by their own
Instructions._ 72
No. VII.
Remarks on the Manners, Guvernment and Debt of the United States.
_State of America after the War._ 81
_Causes of Public Unhappiness._ 84
_Pernicious Effects of Introducing foreign Manners._ 85
-------------------------------- _False Taste._ 94
_Force of Habit in Guvernment._ 97
_Fatal Effects of a Sudden Influx and fluctuating Value of Money._ 105
_Instability of Laws._ 112
No. VIII.
_On Paper Money._ 119
No. IX.
_On Redress of Grievances._ 125
No. X.
_The Influence of the Devil._ 127
No. XI.
_Desultory Thoughts on the Tranquillity of the Guvernment of
Connecticut, Emissions of Paper Currency, Union of the States,
and Popular Complaints respecting Lawyers._ 132
No. XII.
_Advice to Connecticut Folks._ 137
No. XIII.
_An Address to the Dissenting Members of the late Convention in
Pensylvania._ 142
No. XIV.
_On Test Laws, Oaths of Allegiance, Abjuration and partial
Exclusions from Office._ 151
No. XV.
Sketches of the Rise, Progress and Consequences of the late
Revolution.
_Ground of European Claims to North America._ 154
_Origin and Progress of the Controversies respecting America._ 155
_Causes of the late War, between Great Britain and America._ 158
_Massacre at Boston in 1770._ 161
_First Congress in 1774._ 164
_Battle of Lexington, and Progress of the War._ 167
_Appointment of General Washington to the Command of the American
Armies._ 169
_Letter from General Washington, explaining the Circumstances
which led to the Capture of Lord Cornwallis._ 180
_Treaty of Peace._ 182
_Consequences of the War. Defects of the Confederation._ 183
_Popular Tumults on Account of Half Pay to the Officers of the
Army._ 184
-------------- _on Account of the Cincinnati._ 186
_Failure of Public Credit._ 187
_Insurrection in Massachusetts._ 189
_Regulation of Prices._ 192
_History of Paper Money._ 194
_State of Commerce._ 198
_Origin of the Convention in 1786._ 199
_Convention and new Form of Federal Guvernment._ 200
_Processions in Honor of the Constitution._ 203
_First Congress under the Constitution._ _ibid._
No. XVI.
_Remarks on the Method of Burying the Dead among the Nativs of
this Country, compared with that among the Ancient Britons._ 205
No. XVII.
_On the Regularity of the City of Philadelphia._ 217
No. XVIII.
_A Dissertation concerning the Influence of Language on Opinions,
and of Opinions on Language._ 222
No. XIX.
_Effect of Music on Society._ 229
No. XX.
_On the Morality of Savage Nations._ 233
No. XXI.
_A Letter from Constantia, with the Answer._ 239
No. XXII.
_Letter on the Education of a Young Man, with an Answer._ 245
No. XXIII.
An Enquiry into the Origin of the Words Domesday, Parish,
Parliament, Peer, Baron, with Remarks, new and interesting.
_Etymology of Domesday._ 250
_Probable Etymology of Parish._ 252
_Etymology of Parliament._ 258
-------- _of Peer_. 261
-------- _of Baron_. 268
_Extract from Camden's Britannia._ 291
------ _from Sir William Temple's Works._ 297
_Postscript, with Remarks on Juries after the Conquest._ 299
No. XXIV.
_The Injustice, Absurdity, and Bad Policy of Laws against Usury._ 304
No. XXV.
_The Grounds and Extent of Allegiance, Natural and Local._ 317
No. XXVI.
_Explanation of the Reezons, why Marriage iz prohibited between
Natural Relations, designed to determin the Propriety of marrying
a Wife's Sister._ 322
No. XXVII.
Miscellaneous Remarks on Divisions of Property, Guvernment,
Education, Religion, Agriculture, Slavery, Commerce, Climate and
Diseezes in the United States.
_Connection between Property and Power._ 326
_Tenure of Lands in Europe._ _ibid._
-------------- _in New England--its Effects._ 328
_Causes which may in Future change our Governments._ 332
_Karacter of the First Settlers of New England--their
Institutions--Support of Clergymen, Skools, Newspapers,
Parish Libraries, &c._ 332 to 339
_Constitution of Connecticut--Origin--Excellencies and
Defects._ 340, 347
_Remarks on the State of New York._ 347
---------------------- _New Jersey--Territorial Controversy
between East and West Jersey._ 348
_Pensylvania-Territorial Controversy between that State and
Connecticut._ 355
_Maryland._ 360
_Virginia._ 361
_Carolinas and Georgia._ 364
_Agriculture--Influence of Slavery on this._ 365
_Climate of America._ 368
_Comparativ Temperature of the Wether in the Northern and Suthern
States._ 372
No. XXVIII.
_On a Discrimination between the Original and Purchasing
Creditors of the United States._ 378
No. XXIX.
_An Address to Yung Gentlemen._ 387
No. XXX.
_An Address to Yung Ladies._ 406
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