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Ashbourne. Personal Disputes. -

Duke of Devonshire.

Burke's Definition of a Free Government. Ilam. - The

Christian Revelation. Mungo Campbell. - Dr. Taylor's

Bull-dog. "Esop at play."- Memory. Rochester's

Poems. Prior. Hypochondria. Books. Homer

and Virgil. Lord Bacon.

Grainger's "Ode on Solitude.". - Music. - Happiness.

Future State. - Slave Trade. American Independence.

Corruption of Parliament. — Planting. —

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Oddity John-

son." Decision of the Negro Cause. Mr. Saunders

Welch. - Advice to Travellers. - Correspondence. Page 1

Topham Beauclerk.

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CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.

1777-1778.

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CHAPTER II.

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1778.

Inmates of Bolt Court.

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- Tom Davies. Counsel at the Bar

of the House of Commons. Thomas à Kempis. - Uses of

a Diary. Strict Adherence to Truth. - Ghosts. John

Wesley. Alcibiades's Dog.

ary Eloquence. · Place Hunters. - Irish Language.

Thicknesse's "Travels." - Honesty. - Temptation. — Dr.

Kennedy's Tragedy. Shooting a Highwayman.

Emigration. Parliament-

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Mr.

- Laxity of Narration. - Mrs.

Harris of Salisbury. Definition. Wine-

Dunning. Contentment.

Montagu.

drinking. Pleasure.

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Goldsmith.

O Charles the Fifth.

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- Best English Sermons." Seeing Scotland."-

teeism. Delany's "Observations on Swift."

Absen-

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1778.

French

Horace's Villa. Country Life. Great Cities.

Literature. Old Age. "Unius Lacerta."— Potter's

Eschylus. Pope's Homer. — Sir W. Temple's Style.

Elphinston's Martial. — Hawkins's Tragedy.— Insubordin-

ation. Fame. Use of Riches. - Economy.

- Soldiers

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and Sailors.

Charles Fox. - De Foe. - Cock-Lane Ghost.

- Short

Asking Questions. — Hulks. -- Foreign Travel.

Hand.- Dodd's Poems. —Pennant. —Johnson and Percy.

- Stratagem.

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Correspondence.

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Good-Friday.

Fleet Street.

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CHAPTER III.

· Different Go-

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Chapter concerning Snakes." Styles in Painting and

- Luxury..

Writing. George Steevens.

vernments. Maccaronic Verses. Cookery Books.

Inequality of the Sexes. -

Soame

- Degrees of Happiness.

"Internal Evidence."

Jenyns's

Courage. Friendship.

-Free Will.-Mandeville. "Private Vices public Bene-

fits." Hannah More. Mason's Prosecution of Mr.

Murray the Bookseller. Fear of Death. Annihilation.

- Future State of Existence. - Wesley's Ghost Story. -

Jane Harry. Change of Religion. Mrs. Knowles. 119

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CHAPTER IV.

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1778.

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CHAPTER V.

1778.

Bad Housewifery. Books of Travels.

Meeting with Mr. Oliver Edwards. - Law-

Dignity

yers. Tom Tyers. Choice of a Profession.

of Literature. Lord Camden. George Psalmanazar.

Daines Barrington. — Punishment of the Pillory. - Inso

lence of Wealth. - Extravagance. - "Demosthenes Taylor."

Pamphlets. Goldsmith's Comedies. "The Beggar's

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Opera." Johnson's "Historia Studiorum.".

Magazine. Avarice.

Bon Mots.

Pun.

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Egotism.

"The first Whig.'

Homer. · Adam Smith.

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History. - Modern Writers.

Age. Dr. Robertson.

Interest of Money. - Imagination. Existence.

tue and Vice. The Bat.

spire." House of Peers.

Divorces.

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CHAPTER VI.

1778.

Buying Buckles.

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1778-1779.

Lord Kames.

Sir George Villiers's Ghost.

- Native Modesty. Foreign Travel.

Country Life. Manners of the

"Letter to Dunning." - Dr. Mead.

dide. Francis's Horace.

Lord Chatham. - Vows.

tate." Locke. Visit to Warley Camp.

- Sir Joshua Reynolds's "Discourses."

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the "Lives of the Poets."-Death of Garrick.

spondence.

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- Lord Marchmont. -"Tran-

Pope's "Universal Prayer."-

Parson Ford's Ghost. Lord Clive.

CHAPTER VII.

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Pope. Voltaire.

Henry's

- Greece. - Rome. Old

- Addison. - Chinese Language.

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Burke's Classical

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Wine. Tasso.

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Innate Virtue.

Lord Charlemont.

Great. Horne's

Rasselas and Can-

Modern Books of Travels.

Education. - Milton's "Trac-

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- Dr. Burney.

Publication of

1779.

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Mr. Tasker's "Ode." Man of the World. -"Vicar of

Wakefield.' Junius's Letters. Parental Authority. -

London. -"Government of the Tongue.". Good Friday.

Easter Day. Eel-skinning. — Claret, Port, Brandy. -

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Shakspeare's Witches. - Lochlomond. - Liberty. - Hack-

man. Johnson and Topham Beauclerk.. Mallet.

Friendship. Eulogy on Garrick.

"Art of getting

drunk."- Empirics. — Parental Affection. -Lord March-

- Pope. — Parnell's "Hermit."

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mont.

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Experiments on the Constancy of Friends. Colonel James

Stuart. Choice of Guardians. Adventurers to the East

Indies. - Poor of London. - Pope's Essay on Man."

Lord Bolingbroke. -Johnson's Residences in London.

Conjugal Infidelity. Roman Catholics. Helps to the

Study of Greek. Middlesex Election. House of Com-

- Right of Expulsion. George Whitfield. — Philip

Astley. Keeping Company with Infidels. — Irish Union.

- Vulgar Prosperity. "The Ambassador says well.”.

Correspondence.

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CHAPTER IX.

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1779.

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CHAPTER X.

1780.

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"Lives of the Poets" completed.

Dr. Lawrence.- - Loss of

a Wife.

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Death of Topham Beauclerk. - Letter-writing.

Mr. Melmoth. Fitzosborne's Letters. Somerset-

House Exhibition. · Riots in London. Lord George

Gordon. Mr. Akerman. Correspondence. - Dr. Beat-

tie. Davies's "Life of Garrick."- Advice to a Young

Clergyman.

tion. Lady Southwell.

Lord Thurlow.

lin's "Demonax

Composition of Sermons. Borough Elec-

Mr. Alexander Macbean.

Langton's Collectanea. - Dr. Frank-

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LIFE

shire.

Mungo "Esop at

Ashbourne. Personal Disputes. Duke of Devon·Burke's Definition of a Free Government. Ilam. The Christian Revelation. Campbell. Dr. Taylor's Bull-dog. play."- Memory. Hypochondria. Books. Homer and Virgil. Lord Bacon. Topham Beauclerk. "Ode on Solitude."- Music. - Happiness. — Future State.- Slave Trade.-American Independence.

Rochester's Poems.- Prior.

Grainger's

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