ver. 270] The influence of self-love operating to the social and publick good.
ver. 284] Restoration of true religion and government on their first principle. Mixt governments; with the various forms of each, and the true use of all.
EPISTLE IV.
Of the nature and state of man with respect to happiness.
ver. 27] Happiness the end of all men, and attainable by all.
ver. 47] It is necessary, for order and the common peace, that external goods be unequal, therefore happiness is not constituted in these.
ver. 65] The balance of human happiness kept equal (notwithstanding externals) by hope and fear.
ver. 75] In what the happiness of individuals consists, and that the good man has the advantage, even in this world.
ver. 91] That no man is unhappy thro' virtue.
ver. 167] That external goods are not the proper rewards of virtue, often inconsistent with, or destructive of it; but that all these can make no man happy without virtue, instanced in each of them.
1 Riches. 2 Honours. 3 Titles. 4 Birth.
5 Greatness. 6 Fame. 7 Superior parts.
ver. 300] That virtue only constitutes a happiness, whose object is universal, and whose prospect eternal.
ver. 318, & c.] That the perfection of happiness consists in a conformity to the order of providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereafter.
FINIS.
