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MDCCLXXXVII.

141 The danger of attempting wit in converfation. The

character of Papilius

142 An account of fquire Blufter

143 The criterions of plagiarifm

144 The difficulty of raifing reputation. The various

fpecies of detractors

145 Petty writers not to be defpifed

146 An account of an author travelling in queft of his own

character. The uncertainty of fame

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147 The courtier's efteem of affurance

39

148 The cruelty of parental tyranny

45

149 Benefits not always intitled to gratitude

150 Adverfity useful to the acquifition of knowledge

57

151 The climactericks of the mind

63

152 Criticism on epiftolary writings

69

153 The treatment incurred by lofs of fortune

75

154 The inefficacy of genius without learning

155 The usefulness of advice. The danger of habits. The.
neceflity of reviewing life

156 The laws of writing not always indifputable. Reflec-

tions on tragi-comedy

157 The scholar's complaint of his own bafhfulness

158 Rules of writing drawn from examples. Those ex-

amples often mistaken

82

888

95

ΤΟΥ

107

159 The

161 The revolutions of a garret

123

162 Old men in danger of falling into pupillage. The con-

duct of Thrafybulus

129

163 The mischiefs of following a patron

135

164 Praife univerfally defired. The failings of eminent men

often imitated

142

165 The impotence of wealth. The vifit of Serotinus to the

place of his nativity

146

171 Mifella's defcription of the life of a prostitute

172 The effect of fudden riches upon the manners

181

188

173 Unreafonable fears of pedantry

194

174 The mifchiefs of unbounded raillery. Hiftory of

Dicaculus

199

175 The majority are wicked

205

176 Directions to authors attacked by criticks. The various

1to The Audy of life not to be neglected for the fake of

books

231

181 The hiftory of an adventurer in lotteries

182 The hiftory et Leviculus, the fortune-hunter

237

243

183 The influence of envy and intereft compared

249

184 The subject of elays often fuggefted by chance.

Chance equally prevalent in other affairs

254

15 The prohibition of revenge juflifiable by reafon. The

meanness of regulating our conduct by the opinions

187 The history of Anningait and Ajut concluded

188 Favour often gained with little afliftance from under-

ftanding