et may be
productive of much

9. Two ladies of great distinction introduced. Superior
finery ever seems to confer superior breeding

10. The family endeavours to cope with their betters. The
miseries of the poor when they attempt to appear above their
circumstances

11. The family still resolve to hold up their heads

12. Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of
Wakefield. Mortifications are often more painful than real
calamities

13. Mr Burchell is found to be an enemy; for he has the
confidence to give disagreeable advice

14. Fresh mortifications, or a demonstration that seeming
calamities may be real blessings

15. All Mr Burchell's villainy at once detected. The folly
of being-over-wise

16. The Family use art, which is opposed with still greater

17. Scarce any virtue found to resist the power of long and
pleasing temptation 18. The pursuit of a father to reclaim a
lost child to virtue

19. The description of a Person discontented with the
present government, and apprehensive of the loss of our
liberties

20. The history of a philosophic vagabond, pursuing novelty,
but losing content

21. The short continuance of friendship among the vicious,
which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction

22. Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at
bottom

23. None but the guilty can be long and completely miserable

24. Fresh calamities

25. No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some
sort of comfort attending it

26. A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete, they
should reward as well as punish

27. The same subject continued

28. Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence than
of virtue in this life. Temporal evils or felicities being
regarded by heaven as things merely in themselves trifling
and unworthy its care in the distribution

29. The equal dealings of providence demonstrated with
regard to the happy and the miserable here below. That from
the nature of pleasure and pain, the wretched must be repaid
the balance of their sufferings in the life hereafter

30. Happier prospects begin to appear. Let us be inflexible,
and fortune will at last change in our favour

31. Former benevolence now repaid with unexpected inter