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1 Difficulty of the first address. Practice of the epick poets.
Convenience of periodical performances

2 The neceffity and danger of looking into futurity. Wri-
ters naturally fanguine. Their hopes liable to disap-
pointment

3 An allegory on criticism

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The modern form of romances preferable to the ancient.

The neceffity of characters morally good

5 A meditation on the Spring

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6 Happiness not local

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7 Retirement natural to a great mind. Its religious use

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8 The thoughts to be brought under regulation; as they
respect the past, prefent, and future

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9 The fondness of every man for his profeffion. The gra-
dual improvement of manufactures

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10 Four billets with their answers. Remarks on masque-

11 The folly of anger. The misery of a peevish old
12 The hiftory of a young woman that came to London for

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13 The duty of fecrecy. The invalidity of all excuses for
betraying fecrets

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9. for canis, read curis.

28. for linguis, read linquis.

5. for vitiaquæ, read vitiata quæ.

THE

RAMBLER.

NUMB. I. TUESDAY, March 20, 1750.

Cur tamen hoc libeat potius decurrere campo,

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quem magnus equos Aurunca flexit alumnus, Si vacat, et placidi rationem admittitis, edam.

Why to expatiate in this beaten field,

Why arms, oft us'd in vain, I mean to wield;
If time permit, and candour will attend,
Some fatisfaction this effay may lend.

T

Juv

ELPHINSTON.

HE difficulty of the firft address on any new occafion, is felt by every man in his tranfactions with the world, and confeffed by the fettled and regular forms of falutation which neceffity has introduced into all languages. Judgment was wearied with the perplexity of being forced upon choice, where there was no motive to preference; and it was found convenient that fome eafy method of introduction fhould be established, which, if it wanted the allurement of novelty, might enjoy the fecurity of prefcription.

VOL. IV.

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