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BIOGRAPHICAL, Historical, and Critical Preface. 1. Courage, why honoured as a Virtue-Adventurer characterized, and his Achievements projected

Hawkesworth. 2. Intellectual and Corporal Labour compared

Hawkesworth. 3. Project for a new Pantomime Entertainment

Bathurst. 4. Of the different kinds of Narrative, and why they are universally read

Hawkesworth. 5. Remark on Dreaming- Various Transmigrations related by a Flea

Hawkesworth. 6. Project for an Auction of Manuscripts, by Timothy Spinbrain, Author

Bathurst. 7. Distress encouraged to hope: the History of Melissa

Hawkesworth. 8. The History of Melissa concluded 9. Impropriety of Signs

Bathurst 10. Happiness and Misery, how far the necessary effects of Virtue and Vice

Hawkesworth. 11. An allegorical Letter from To-Day 12. The Influence of Infidelity upon Moral Conduct: Story of Opsinous

Hawkesworth. 13. The Story of Opsinous continued 14. The Story of Opsinous concluded 15. The Insolence and Absurdity of Advertisements by Quacks—Pernicious consequences of granting

Hawkesworth. 16. Of instructing by Fiction 17. Curiosity necessary to entertainment and know

them patents

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1823

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BRITISH ESSAYISTS;

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BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL,

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BY THE

REV, LIONEL THOMAS BERGUER,

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BIOGRAPHICAL, Historical, and Critical Preface. 1. Courage, why honoured as a Virtue-Adventurer characterized, and his Achievements projected

Hawkesworth. 2. Intellectual and Corporal Labour compared

Hawkesworth. 3. Project for a new Pantomime Entertainment

Bathurst. 4. Of the different kinds of Narrative, and why they are universally read

Hawkesworth. 5. Remark on Dreaming—Various Transmigrations related by a Flea

Hawkesworth. 6. Project for an Auction of Manuscripts, by Timothy Spinbrain, Author

Bathurst. 7. Distress encouraged to hope: the History of Melissa

Hawkesworth. 8. The History of Melissa concluded 9. Impropriety of Signs

Bathurst 10. Happiness and Misery, how far the necessary effects of Virtue and Vice

Hawkesworth. 11. An allegorical Letter from To-Day 12. The Influence of Infidelity upon Moral Conduct: Story of Opsinous

Hawkesworth. 13. The Story of Opsinous continued 14. The Story of Opsinous concluded 15. The Insolence and Absurdity of Advertisements by Quacks—Pernicious consequences of granting them patents

Hawkesworth. 16. Of instructing by Fiction 17. Curiosity necessary to entertainment and know