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CONTENTS.

118. On the Character of Addison as a Poet

119. The Folly of bringing up Children to a

Learned Profession, without the probability

of providing them with a Competency....

120. On Decency, as the only Motive of our appa-

rent Virtues, and particularly of our Religious

121. On the Animosities occasioned in the Country

by the Game Laws

23

122. On the Importance of Governing the Temper 18

123. On the Moral Effects of a good Tragedy

124. On the Influence of Politics, as a Subject of

Conversation, on the State of Literature

............

125. On Buffoonery in Conversation.........

126. On the Style of Xenophon and Plato.........

127. On the Advantages derivable from National

Adversity.......

128. On some of the False Pretensions and Imposi-

tions of the Artful and Avaricious.........

129. On the Prevailing Taste in Poetry

130. On the Peculiar Danger of falling into Indo-

131. On the Manners of a Metropolis

132. On Philelphus and Theodore Gaza, Polite

Scholars of the Fifteenth Century............ 64

133. On the Inefficacy of that Style of Speaking and

Writing, which may be called the Frothy... 68

134. On the Genius of Erasmus.......

135. On the Education of a Prince

136. Introductory Remarks on the Art of Printing...

137. On the Circumstances which led to the Disco-

very of the Art of Printing, with Miscella-

neous Remarks on it........

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104

138. On the Moral, Political, and Religious Effects

of Printing, with concluding Remarks

139. Cursory Thoughts on Satire and Satirists...... 100

140. On Logic and Metaphysics ..............

141. On Latin Verse as an Exercise at Schools...... 109

142. On the Insensibility of the Men to the Charms

of a Female Mind, cultivated with Polite

and Solid Literature.

[In a Letter.] 114

143. On Parental Indulgence ....................

144. On the Poems attributed to Rowley............................. 124

145. On the Moral Tendency of the Writings of

Sterne .........

146. On the Weight and Efficacy which Morality

may derive from the Influence and Example

of those who are called the Great............ 133

147. On the Profligacy and consequent Misery of

the Lower Classes and on the Means of

148. On some Passages in Aristotle's Rhetoric, with

Miscellaneous Remarks on his Style, Genius,

and Works.........

149. On the Beauty and Happiness of an open Be-

haviour, and an ingenuous Disposition...... 146

150. A Remedy for Discontent

of admitting Music and external Magnifi-

cence in Places of Devotion .................. 155

152. On the present State of Parliamentary Elo-

153. A Life of Letters usually a Life of comparative

154. On the Advantage which may be derived to

the Tender and Pathetic Style, from using

Words and Phrases of Scripture.............. 169

155. On the Figure Parrhesia, or on expressing one's

Sentiments freely

156. On Reading merely with a View to Amuse-

157. On a Method of Study, written by Ringel-

158. On the Folly of sacrificing Comfort to Taste 185

159. On the Example of Henry V. and the Opinion

that a profligate Youth is likely to terminate

in a wise Manhood

160. A Good Heart necessary to enjoy the Beauties

of Nature........

161. On the peculiar baseness of Vice in Nobility 200

162. On Affectation of Extreme Delicacy and Sen-

sibility...........

163. On true Patience, as distinguished from Insen-

............. 209

164. Cursory Remarks on the Eloquence of the

Pulpit. [In a Letter.] ..................................

165. On the superior Value of Solid Accomplish-

ments. A Dialogue between Cicero and

Lord Chesterfield........

166. Conjectures on the Difference between Orien-

tal and Septentrional Poetry.........................................

167. Cursory Remarks on the Poetry of the Prophets,

of Isaiah in particular, and on the Beauties

168. On Preaching and Sermon Writers......

169. On the Neglect of Ancient Authors. [In a

Letter.]........

170. On the Retirement of a Country Town.

171. Cursory Thoughts on Epistolary Writers 25i

172. On the Necessity of Exercise, Amusement,

and an Attention to Health, in a Life of

Study.. [In a Letter.] ........

173. On the Merits of Cowley as a Poet

174. Cursory and General Hints on the Choice of

Books..........

175. Cursory Remarks on the Odyssey, on Pope's

Translation, Mr. Spence's Essay, &c. ....... 275

176. Thoughts on the Edipus Tyrannus of Sopho-

cles, and several Circumstances respecting

the Grecian Drama

177. Cursory Remarks on some of the Minor Eng-

178. Cursory and unconnected Remarks on some of

the Minor Greek Poets........

179. A Concluding Essay

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