Lifes Progress Through the Passions

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Life's Progress Through the Passions

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Title: Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
Author: Eliza Fowler Haywood
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April 2, 1748.
The late great Demand for the FORTUNATE FOUNDLINGS, occasioning it to be out of Print sooner than was expected; this is to advertise the Public, that a new Edition of that Book is now in the Press, and will be published the Beginning of next Month.
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LIFE's PROGRESS THROUGH THE PASSIONS:
OR, THE ADVENTURES OF NATURA.
By the Author of The FORTUNATE FOUNDLINGS.
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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION, Page 1.
BOOK the First.
CHAP. I.
Shews, in the example of Natura, how from our very birth, the passions, to which the human soul is incident, are discoverable in us; and how far the organs of sense, or what is called the constitution, has an effect over us, Page 4.
CHAP. II.
Contains some proofs by what swift degrees the passions gain an ascendant over the mind, and grow up in proportion with our reason, Page 7.
CHAP. III.
The early influence which the difference of sex excites, is here exemplified, in the fond, but innocent affection of Natura and Delia, Page 21.
CHAP. IV.
Shews, that till we arrive at a certain age, the impressions made on us are easily erased; and also that when those which bear the name of love are once rooted in the mind, there are no lengths to which we may not be transported by that passion, if great care is not taken to prevent its getting the ascendant over reason, Page 27.
CHAP. V.
That to indulge any one fault, brings with it the temptation of committing others, is demonstrated by the behaviour of Natura, and the misfortunes and disgrace, which an ill-judged shame had like to have involved him in, Page 39.
CHAP. VI.
Shews the great force of natural affection, and the good effects it has over a grateful mind, Page 51.
BOOK the Second.
CHAP. I.
The inconsideration and instability of youth, when unrestrained by authority, is here exemplified, in an odd adventure Natura embarked in with two nuns, after the death of his governor, Page 63.
CHAP. II.
The pleasures