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No. 3364.

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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

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a youth for the extraordinary rather than the ordinary occasions of life....... 112 45. Story continued-Trade and tricks of authorship..........

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46. Story continued-Literary jugglers........ 133 47. Trials of virtue-Same story............. 143 48. Same story-Fresh characters-Fresh vi

cissitudes.

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49. Same story-Remarks on war-Foreign

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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

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nounced by a club of patriots-A new
Allegro-Pleasures of the town............

54. Story of the Athenian madman-The mad
carpenter and the king of Bohemia—
Simon Olive-Branch enters the metropo-
lis-His surprises-Universal pregnancy
-Letter from madam Olive-Branch-
Naked bosoms-Swelled necks-Adver-
tisement thereon-Conjuring friend-
Modern improvements- Proclamation
of the female synod......

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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 ....

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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

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