The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays ...

Lackington and Company and J. Mawman, 1817

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VOL II	13

Witty sayings of several ancients	52

Delineation of the life of Tiberius	53

Review of events in the reign of Kiug Charles the First Of the education of a prince	54

Advantages of a happy talent for discerning times and sea sons	55

The character of a proud	56

Advantages of a great fortune well applied A poetie rhapsody in the manner of The Task	57

Remarks upon Congreves comedy of the Double Dealer	80

Observations on the various sorts of style	81

Conversation in a coffeehouse upon the time past compared with the time present 83 The same concluded	82

General observations on the social character	84

VOL II	85

Author explains the motives of his work and concludes the third volume	86

Written on the last day of the year 1789 Short review of the remarkable events within the period of that year	87

The history of Nicolas Pedrosa	88

The visit to Attalus concluded	58

Notion that death may be avoided at will	59

Meditations on the character of an infidel	60

Of the morality of Christianity	61

An argument for the evidences of the Christian religion	62

Observations upon the several instances of right reason in the heathen world	63

Reasons offered a priori for the necessity of a mediator	64

Argument of David Levi for the superiority of the mira cles wrought by Moses over those which the evange lists record of Christ	65

Further defence of the miracles objected to by David Levi	66

The origin and progress of poetry	67

On natural and acquired taste	68

A delineation of Shakspeares characters of Macbeth and Richard A parallel between him and Æschylus	69

The subject continued	70

Further continuation	71

Conclusion of the subject	72

Remarks upon the characters of Falstaff and his group	73

Ben Jonsons imitations of Philostratus compared with the original passages His satirical glances at Shaks peare instanced	74

Review of the Sampson Agonistes	76

Comparative review of Rowes Fair Penitent with the Fatal Dowry of Massinger 78 The same continued	77

Conclusion of the review	79

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The history concluded	90

A review of the present state of society in this country	91

Letter from Posthumous complaining of a certain writer who had published a collection of his memoirs and remarkable sayings	92

Kit Cracker a dealer in the marvellous	93

Walter Wormwood an envious defamer	94

Letter from Simon Sapling describing his own character	95

On the topic of procrastination	96

Letter from Benevolus giving an account of a damper	97

Letters from various correspondents particularly from Gorgon a selfconceited painter of the deformed and terrible	98

Discovery of a curious Greek fragment	99

Athenian vision	100

Athenian vision concluded	101

Upon the laste for acting private plays	102

Anecdotes of Jack Gayless	103

Memoirs of a sentimentalist	104

Conclusion of the above	105

Observations on the passions	106

The character of a flatterer	312

The flatterer reformed	392

Название	The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays ... Observer (Том 2), Richard Cumberland The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays (Том 2), Richard Cumberland
Автор	Richard Cumberland
Издатель	Lackington and Company and J. Mawman, 1817
Владелец оригинала:	Мичиганский университет
Оцифровано	22 май 2007

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