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The rambler

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Pafraets, 1903 - 352 pages

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An allegory on criticism	14

A meditation on the Spring	27

Retirement natural to a great mind Its religious use	39

The fondness of every man for his profession The gradual	57

Four billets with their answers Remarks on masquerades	65

The history of a young woman that came to London for a service	71

The difference between an authors writings and his conversation	87

The folly of cards A letter from a lady that has lost her money	94

The dangers and miseries of a literary eminence	102

The frequent contemplation of death necessary to moderate	108

The unhappiness of marriage caused by irregular motives	114

The danger of ranging from one study to another The import	122

The folly and inconvenience of affectation	130

The anxieties of literature not less than those of publick stations	136

An allegory on wit and learning	143

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The Rambler
Samuel Johnson
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acquaintance amusements Anthea appearance beauty calamities caution censure CHARLES JAMES FOX Cleobulus common consider contempt danger delight desire easily effects ELPHINSTON endeavour enjoy envy Epictetus equally errour evils excellence eyes faults favour fear flatter folly force fortune frequently gain genius give happen happiness havock heart hinder honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination incited indulged Jupiter kind knowledge labour ladies Learning lence Leniter less lest lives mankind marriage means ment mind miscarriages misery nature ness never objects observed once opinion ourselves OVID pain passed passions pastoral pastoral poetry Penthesilea perhaps Periander pleasing pleasure praise precepts produced Prudentius publick RAMBLER reason regard reproach repu reputation SAMUEL JOHNSON SATURDAY seldom sentiments shew sion solicitude soon sophism sorrow suffer things thought tion topicks TUESDAY vanity Virgil virtue wish write youth

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Title	The rambler Volume 1 of The Works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson Volume 4 of Works of Samuel Johnson : in 16 Vol
Author	Samuel Johnson
Publisher	Pafraets, 1903
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	5 Aug 2010
Length	352 pages

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