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THE GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP

THE FOULIS BOOKS

THE · GIFT · OF FRIENDSHIP.

ILLUSTRATED BY H C PRESTON MACGOUN R S W

T N FOULIS London & Edinburgh

Printed October 1910

Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty

CONTENTS

I. R. W. EMERSON

PAGE

Friendship 1

II. H. D. THOREAU

Friends and Friendship 45

III. THOMAS CARLYLE

The Sentiment of Friendship 79

IV. HENRY MACKENZIE

On the Acquisition of Friends 89

V. OLIVER GOLDSMITH

On Friendship 99

VI. DR. JOHNSON

The Pleasures of Friendship 109

VII. DR. JOHNSON

The True Art of Friendship 119

VIII. GEORGE BERKELEY

The Virtue of Friendship 137

IX. SIR RICHARD STEELE

On the Choice of Friends 151