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2. Od lumachbar Ornal-
21. On a Brookstons of going Academics to
Londra. Start's Charader of young Buiwit,
* German. Comredation bezween two in the
Bedford Hem vove, and of a Set of them at
tre Shubespeure, Journal of a Week's Tranf
*kijoms di an Ozonian in Town. Opt, imitated
from Horace, fent by a Pellow-Collegian to
one of thefe Academical Rakes.
X11. Abfurdity of Lond Bolingbroke reprefenting Mo-
Je, as making Beafs accountable for Crimes.
TRIAL of BEASTS, a Vifion. Indictments
agsinf an Hog, a Cat, a Parrot, a Milch-Afs,
* Monkey, a Lion, and other Animals.
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XIII. Letter from Mr. VILLAGE, concerning
ELECTIONS. Account of a Borough Town
divided into two Parties, Chriftians and
Jews. An Anti - Judaic Entertainment.
Character of a Country Knight, a violent
Enemy to the Jews.
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XIV. Letter, complaining of the WHISPERERS and GIGLERS among the FAIR SEX. Inftance of their rude Behaviour during a Vifit. WHIS- PERING and GIGLING improper at Church,
in the Play-houfe, and other Places. 106
XV. On BETS: particularly, on the Custom of
PITTING, as practised at White's ; i. e.
ftaking one Man's Life against another.
Character of Montano a noble Gamefter.
XVI. Letter from Oxford, on the STORY of Shake-
Speare's Merchant of Venice. Copy of an ori-
ginal Ballad, (preserved in the Ashmolean
Mufæum) from which Shakespeare is fuppo-
fed to have borrowed Part of his Plot.
XVII. Letter, proving the City of London to be an
UNIVERSITY. Arts and Sciences taught
there in greater Perfection than at Oxford
or Cambridge.
XVIII. On the DISHONESTY of CONNOISSEURS. Inftances of it, and Punishment proposed for it. Story of a Virtuofo's Defign to rob a Church.
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XIX. Letter, on the different TASTES in EATING.
Luxury at White's. Difference between the
Taverns about St. James's and the 'Change.
Of the Taverns about Covent-Garden. Story
of a Cook at one of them, toffing up the
Shoe of a Fille de Joye in a Ragout. Cha-
racters to be met with at Chop-houses, &c.
-Letter from Goliah English, remon-
ftrating against the fashionable Neglect fhewn to ROAST BEEF.
XX. Letter from a Lady of Quality in the Country,
defcribing the Miseries she is obliged to un-
dergo on account of Election Matters.-
Reflections on the dangerous Confequences
of Ladies interfering in ELECTIONS; with
a Propofal to prevent them.
XXI. TQUASSOUW and KNONMQUAIHA, an Hot-
tentot Story.
XXII. Letter, on the modern Method of EDUCA-
TION. Characters of Lady Belle Modely
and the Colonel her Husband. Confe-
quences of the fafhionable EDUCATION of
their Son and Daughter.
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XXIII. Letter from Mr. VILLAGE, with a Defcription
of a QUACK-DOCTOR, and a Company of
STROLLING PLAYERS in a Country Town. 179
XXIV. On the LEARNING of the POLITE WORLD.
Proper Studies for Perfons of Fashion.-
Letter,
Letter, containing a Scheme for a POLITE
CIRCULATING LIBRARY; with a Speci-
men of the Books
XXV. On the Vanity of People making an AP-
PEARANCE above their CIRCUMSTANCES.
Pride and Poverty of a little Frenchman,
known by the Name of Count. Artifices in
Drefs made Ufe of by the Shabby Genteel.
Second-Hand Gentry among the Women.
Inftances of this VANITY in feveral Fa-
milies:- · And in the Men of Pleasure
without Fortunes. Story of an Oeconomist,
who kept a Mistress.
XXVI. On the AMUSEMENTS of SUNDAY. Beha-
viour of Citizens, and Diary of a Cit's
Tranfactions, on that Day. Propofal for
ABOLISHING CHRISTIANITY, and turning
the CHURCHES into FREE-THINKING
MEETING-HOUSES.
XXVII. On HARD WORDS. Affected Use of them
cenfured-In Abstract Speculations - In
Voyage-Writers-In the Pulpit-In Essays,
and other Familiar Writings-And in Com-
mon Converfation.
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XXVIII. On CONSCIENCE. Terrible Exit of Tom
Dare-Devil, a Buck, and an Atheist.
Summary of the most notorious Actions
of his Life.
XXIX. On the VANITY of AUTHORS. Different
Reception and Fate of thefe Effays. M
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