THE

PLEASURES

OF

HUMAN LIFE,

EXAMINED AND ENUMERATED.

WITH

AN ENTERTAINING TREATISE

ON

MISTAKES

RESPECTING PLEASURE AND HAPPINESS,

AND ON

The Objects which are opposed to the Pleasures of Life,

USUALLY DENOMINATED

ITS MISERIES.

BY THE REV. J. PLATTS.

LONDON:

PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY HENRY FISHER,
(Printer to His Majesty.)

Sold at 38, Newgate-street, and by all Booksellers.

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CONTENTS.

Introduction, :

CHAPTER I. The Pleasures of Childhood and Youth,

II. The Pleasures of Manhood,

III. The Pleasures of Love, ....

IV. The same subject, continued, .

V. The same subject, continued,

VI. The same subject, concluded, .

VII. The Pleasures of Married Life,.

VIII. The same subject, continued,

IX. The same subject, continued,. . . . .

X. The same subject, continued,.

XI. The same subject, continued,.

XII. The same subject, continued,.

XIII. The same subject, concluded,.

XIV. The Pleasures of Single Life,

XV. The Pleasures of Society,

XVI. The Pleasures of Friendship,

XVII. The Pleasures of Sense,

XVIII. The Pleasures of Business and Employment,.

XIX. The same subject, concluded,

XX. The Pleasures of Sleep,

XXI. The Pleasures of the Town,

XXII. The Pleasures of the Country and Retirement,

XXIII. The same subject, continued,.....

XXIV. The same subject, concluded,.....

XXV. The Pleasures of the Garden,

XXVI. The Pleasures of Ignorance,

XXVII. The Pleasures of Knowledge,

XXVIII. The Pleasures of Literature,

XXIX. The Pleasures of History,

XXX. The Pleasures of Biography,...............

XXXI. The Pleasures of the Study of Nature,..

XXXII. The same subject, continued,.

XXXIII. The same subject, concluded,.

XXXIV. The Pleasures of Botany,

XXXV. The Pleasures of Astronomy,

XXXVI. The Pleasures of Taste,

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