CONTENTS. VOL. XXXVI. 33. SPURIOUS learning-Story from Lucian- Book-hunters-Advantages and disad- vantages of the invention of printing... 34. History of signs-LOOKER-ON laid out on the plan of a Roman villa—Apartment 35. Letter to the Association for preserving 36. The same subject................ 39. Further remarks on signs-Letter from Peter Pry...................... 40. Errors of imitation-MORAL-Madam Olive-Branch's observations-Sir Philip Sidney and the Prince of Wales-Peti- tion from the Christianity-mongers- LITERARY Its effects on dramatic composition-The Tour of Sentiment— No. 42. Subject of analogy continued-God's moral government-The moral sense considered-The tendencies of virtue and vice-Predominancy and high prerogatives of virtue....... 43. Story of Eugenio and his Amelia-Too high a pitch may be given to the mind in early life....... 44. Story of Eugenio continued-A true soldier-That education faulty which fits a youth for the extraordinary rather than the ordinary occasions of life....... 112 45. Story continued-Trade and tricks of authorship.......... 123 46. Story continued-Literary jugglers........ 133 47. Trials of virtue-Same story............. 143 48. Same story-Fresh characters-Fresh vi cissitudes. .... 49. Same story-Remarks on war-Foreign ....... 154 164 adventures.... 50. Salutary effects of sorrow-The resources of a mind alive to religious impressions— Conclusion and moral of the story....... 175 51. Solemn synod of females-State of the female world-Miranda's praise-Various letters, petitions, &c. read-Court of the Bona Dea-Rights of Women-Dialogue between a mademoiselle and her mistress Juvenal charged with a libel— Decree of the assembly-Pleasant story of the three Furies....... 52. Subject of analogy continued-State of probation-Doctrine of fatalism 53. Threatening letter to Simon Olive-Branch on his intended visit to the metropolisHis head as unsafe as the pope's-De 186 197 No. nounced by a club of patriots-A new 54. Story of the Athenian madman-The mad Page 209 217 55. Simon still in the capital-Catalogue of vulgar errors-Character of a polished man-Two characters from Mons. La Bruyere-Vision of the Well of Truth 229 56. Sentiments on the spring-A London spring-Epigram-A city spring, the season for salmon-Passage from Baron Von Lowhen .... 241 ..... 251 57. Sermon to a clerical congregation-Pulpit eloquence-Clerical fops...... 58. Hospitality-Curious list of the moral benefits wrought by good dinners-Story from Lonicerus, of the devil and a drunkard-Fable of gout and a flea............. 262 59. The philosophy of the comfortable-Character of Demades-Greek and Roman ideas of comfort-English the only classics in the comfortable-Introduction and reception of Anacharsis................. 271 60. Translation-Specimen of a modern translation of Virgil..... 61. Same subject-Difficulty and dignity of translation.... 62. Modern sensibility-Grown gentlemen and ladies taught sensibility on mathe 282 294 |