little incident.  

  Chapter v. — A very long chapter, containing a very great incident.  

  Chapter vi. — By comparing which with the former, the reader may possibly correct some abuse which he hath formerly been guilty of in the application of the word love.  

  Chapter vii. — In which Mr Allworthy appears on a sick-bed.  

  Chapter viii. — Containing matter rather natural than pleasing.  

  Chapter ix. — Which, among other things, may serve as a comment on that saying of Aeschines, that “drunkenness shows the mind of a man, as a mirrour reflects his person.”  

  Chapter x. — Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency.        

  Chapter xi. — In which a simile in Mr Pope's period of a mile introduces as bloody a battle as can possibly be fought without the assistance of steel or cold iron.  

  Chapter xii. — In which is seen a more moving spectacle than all the blood in the bodies of Thwackum and Blifil, and of twenty other such, is capable of producing.  

  

  BOOK VI. — CONTAINING ABOUT THREE WEEKS.  

  Chapter i. — Of love.  

  Chapter ii. — The character of Mrs Western. Her great learning and knowledge of the world, and an instance of the deep penetration which she derived from those advantages.  

  Chapter iii. — Containing two defiances to the critics.  

  Chapter iv. — Containing sundry curious matters.  

  Chapter v. — In which is related what passed between Sophia and her aunt.  

  Chapter vi. — Containing a dialogue between Sophia and Mrs Honour, which may a little relieve those tender affections which the foregoing scene may have raised in the mind of a good-natured reader.  

  Chapter vii. — A picture of formal courtship in miniature, as it always 

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