The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson

L. Hansard, 1806

Contents

• NUMB: 14
• NUMB Page 159 The nature and remedies of bashfulneſs: 113
• Rules for the choice of affociates: 118
• The revolutions of a garret: 123
• Old men in danger of falling into pupilage The con duct of Thrafybulus: 129
• The mifchiefs of following a patron: 135
• Praiſe univerſally defired The failings of eminent men often imitated: 142
• The difficulty of raiſing reputation The various fpecies: 144
• The impotence of wealth The vifit of Serotinus to the place of his nativity: 146
• Adverfity uſeful to the acquifition of knowledge: 150
• Favour not eafily gained by the poor: 153
• The laws of writing not always indifputable Reflec: 156
• The marriage of Hymenaus and Tranquilla: 158
• Poetry debaſed by mean expreflions An example from Shakespeare: 164
• Labour neceffary to excellence: 169
• The hiftory of Mifella debauched by her relation: 175
• Mifellas defcription of the life of a prostitute: 181
• The effect of fudden riches upon the manners: 188
• NuMB Page 189 The mifchiefs of falfehood The character: 189
• Uureafonable fears of pedantry: 194
• The miſchiefs of unbounded raillery Hiftory of Dicaculus: 199
• The majority are wicked: 205
• Directions to authors attacked by criticks The various degrees of critical perfpicacity: 210
• An account of a club of antiquaries: 215
• Many advantages not to be enjoyed together: 221
• The awkward merriment of a ſtudent: 226
• The study of life not to be neglected for the fake of books: 231
• The hiftory of an adventurer in lottèries 237: 237
• The hiftory of Leviculus the fortunehunter: 243
• The influence of envy and intereft compared: 249
• The ſubject of effays often fuggefted by chance Chance equally prevalent in other affairs: 254
• The prohibition of revenge juftifiable by reaſon The meannefs of regulating our conduct by the opinions of men: 259
• Anningait and Ajut a Greenland hiſtory: 265
• The hiftory of Anningait and Ajut concluded: 271
• Favour often gained with little affiftance from under standing: 277
• Turpicula: 282
• 189: 283
• The hiftory of Abouzaid the fon of Morad: 287
• The bufy life of a young lady: 293
• Love unfuccefsful without riches: 299
• The authors art of praiſing himſelf: 305
• A young noblemans progrefs in politeness: 310
• A young noblemans introduction to the knowledge of the town: 316
• Human opinions mutable The hopes of youth falla cious: 322
• The hiftory of a legacyhunter: 327
• The legacyhunters hiftory concluded: 332
• The virtues of Rabbi Abrahams magnet: 339
• Afpers complaint of the infolence of Profpero Un politeneſs not always the effect of pride: 346
• The importance of punctuality: 352
• The different acceptations of poverty Cynicks and Monks not poor: 358
• The pleaſures of life to be fought in proſpects of futu rity Future fame uncertain: 363
• The hiſtory of ten days of Seged emperor of Ethiopia: 368
• The hiftory of Seged concluded: 374
• The art of living at the cost of others: 380
• The folly of continuing too long upon the ſtage: 385
• The Ramblers reception His defign: 391

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.; Volume 6 of The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, Samuel Johnson
• Author: Samuel Johnson
• Editor: Arthur Murphy
• Publisher: L. Hansard, 1806
• Original from: the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized: May 16, 2012