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VI. On Education...
On the Instability of worldly Grandeur.
Some Account of the Academies of Italy.
VII. Of Eloquence
Custom and Laws compared....
On the Pride and Luxury of the Middling Class of People...
Sabinus and Olinda...
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The Sentiments of a Frenchman on the Temper of the English 223
VIII. On Deceit and Falsehood....
An Account of the Augustan Age of England
Of the Opera in England..
ESSAYS.
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Preface to the Essays..
I. Description of various Clubs ..
II. Specimen of a Magazine in Miniature...
III. Asem, an eastern Tale; or, Vindication of the Wisdom of Pro-
vidence in the Moral Government of the World......
IV. On the English Clergy and popular Preachers....
V. A Reverie at the Boar's-Head Tavern, Eastcheap..
VI. Adventures of a Strolling Player.....
VII. Rules enjoined to be observed at a Russian Assembly..
VIII. Biographical Memoir, supposed to be written by the Ordinary
of Newgate....
IX. National Concord..
X. Female Warriors.
XI. National Prejudices.
XII. Taste.....
XIII. Cultivation of Taste.
XIV. Origin of Poetry.
XV. Poetry distinguished from other Writing.
XVI. Metaphors
XVII. Hyperboles.
XVIII. Versification..
XIX. Schools of Music, Objections thereto, and Answers..
XX. Carolan the Irish Bard......
XXI. On the Tenants of the Leasowes..
XXII. Sentimental Comedy. .
XXIII. Scotch Marriages ...
XXIV. Dignity of Human Nature..
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