An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects
BURNS, and Mrs. YEARSLEY.

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 Pauci quos aequus amavit Jupiter, atque ardens evexit ad aethera Virtus, Felices, potuere! 

 CONTENTS 

ESSAY ON WAR

HONINGTON GREEN

THE CULPRIT

YORKSHIRE DIP

LOVE'S TRIUMPH

PROVERBS OF THREESCORE

MORE BREAD AND CHEESE

LYRIC ADDRESS TO DR. JENNER

 ESSAY ON WAR 

 [War for room required by encreased Population.—With Arts of Use and Comfort spring those of War.—Blessings of the Infant State of Society.—Peace cannot last beyond the Infancy of Society.—War defined to preserve the equilibrium of Population.—War between hords of emigrating Stranger Nations.—Invasions on account of violated Women.—Love the strongest and most natural cause of War.—Violence of conflicting Passions at sight of an Enemy.—Solitary wounded Combatant amid the Dying and Dead.—Female Friends seeking for Dead or Wounded Relatives.—Morning after the Battle—Sympathy—Compassion.—Long remembrance of the Horrors of War.—Gunpowder; it's tremendous effects.—Gunpowder, a humane discovery.—Castles &c. proofs of the continued prevalence of War.—Men quit a peaceful Country to seek War abroad.—History full of War.—Slavish Peace more cruel and more horrid than War.—Obligations of Peace to the active Virtues of War.—Havock of Peace more shocking than that of War.—War between Man and the rest of the animal Creation.—War of the Elements and natural Powers.—Recapitulation.... Conclusion.] 


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