The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: A journey to the Hebrides. The vision of Thedodore, the hermit of Teneriffe. The fountains. Prayers and meditations. Sermons

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The fondness of every man for his profession The gradual improve ment of manufactures
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Four billets with their answers Remarks on masquerades
10
The folly of anger The misery of a peevish old
11
The history of a young woman that came to London for a service
12
The duty of secrecy The invalidity of all excuses for betraying secrets
13
The difference between an authors writings and his conversation
14
The folly of cards A letter from a lady that has lost her money
15
The dangers and miseries of a literary eminence
16
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NUMB PAGE 70 Different men virtuous in different degrees The vitious not always
70
NUMB PAGE 26 The mischief of extravagance and misery of dependence
127
An authors treatment from six patrons
132
The various arts of selfdelusion
136
The folly of anticipating misfortunes
142
The observance of Sunday recommended an allegory
146
The defence of a known mistake highly culpable
150
The vanity of stoicism The necessity of patience
156
An allegorical history of Rest and Labour
161
The Vision of Theodore the Hermit of Teneriffe 112
162
The uneasiness and disgust of female cowardice
165
A marriage of prudence without affection
171
The Fountains
176
The true principles of pastoral poetry
180
The advantages of mediocrity an eastern fable
185
The unhappiness of women whether single or married
190
Prayers and Meditations
191
The difficulty of giving advice without offending
194
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The advantages of memory
199
The misery of a modish lady in solitude
204
The inconveniencies of precipitation and confidence
208
Religion and Superstition a vision
213
The causes of disagreement in marriage
218
The mischiefs of rural faction
222
The proper means of regulating sorrow
227
The miseries of an infirm constitution
231
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234
A disquisition upon the value of fame
235
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A virtuous old age always reverenced
240
The employments of a housewife in the country
244
The contemplation of the calamities of others a remedy for grief
250
The folly and misery of a spendthrift
254
A deathbed the true school of wisdom The effects of death upon the survivors
258
The gay widows impatience of the growth of her daughter The his tory of miss Maypole
263
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The necessity of complaisance The Ramblers grief for offending his correspondents
268
Sententious rules of frugality
273
The desire of wealth moderated by philosophy
277
Passion not to be eradicated The views of women ill directed
313
The garden of Hope a dream
317
Every man chiefly happy or miserable at home The opinion of ser vants not to be despised
322
The miseries and prejudice of old age
326
No man believes that his own life will be short
334
The necessity of good humour
338
The lingering expectation of an heir
342
Peevishness equally wretched and offensive The character of Tetrica
347
The world never known but by a change of fortune The history of Melissa
352
The arts by which bad men are reconciled to themselves
357
The learned seldom despised but when they deserve contempt
361
The power of novelty Mortality too familiar to raise apprehensions
366
A suspicious man justly suspected
370
a winter scene
375
The virtuosos account of his rarities
383
The virtuosos curiosity justified
388
A young ladys impatience of control
393
The mischiefs of total idleness
398
an introduction to a criti cism on Miltons versification
402
The reasons why advice is generally ineffectual
408
A criticism on Miltons versification Elisions dangerous in English poetry
412
The luxury of vain imagination
417
The pauses in English poetry adjusted
421
The conduct of Patronage an allegory
426
The accommodation of sound to the sense often chimerical
431
The prejudices and caprices of criticism
438
An inquiry how far Milton has accommodated the sound to the sense
442
The history of Pertinax the skeptick
449
Truth Falsehood and Fiction an allegory
453
Advice to unmarried ladies
458
The necessity of cultivating politeness
464
The pleasures of private friendship The necessity of similar disposi tions
468
Modish pleasures
472
A proper audience necessary to a wit
476
The voyage of life
481
The prevalence of curiosity The character of Nugaculus
486
The original of flattery The meanness of venal praise
491
The universal register a dream
495
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527
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527
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The frequent contemplation of death necessary to moderate the pas sions 18 The unhappiness of marriage caused by irregular motives of choice 19 T...
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The contrariety of criticism The vanity of objection An author obliged to depend upon his own judgment 113
xxxiv
The necessity of attending to the duties of common life The na tural character not to be forsaken 117
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Rashness preferable to cowardice Enterprise not to be repressed 122
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TitelThe Works of Samuel Johnson ...: A journey to the Hebrides. The vision of Thedodore, the hermit of Teneriffe. The fountains. Prayers and meditations. Sermons
Oxford English classics
Band 9 von The Works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson
Autor/inSamuel Johnson
HerausgeberFrancis Pearson Walesby
VerlagTalboys and Wheeler, 1825
Original vonUniversity of Chicago
Digitalisiert11. Aug. 2015
  
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