CONTENTS FOURTH VOLUME. Pages 156 The laws of writing not always indisputa- 158 Rules of writing drawn from examples. Those examples often mistaken 159 The nature and remedies of bashfulness 161 The revolutions of a garret 162 Old men in danger of falling into pupill- 163 The mischiefs of following a patron 164 Praise universally desired. The failings of 166 Favour not easily gained by the poor 167 The marriage of Hymenæus and Tranquilla 63 168 Poetry debased by mean expressions. An 74 173 Unreasonable fears of pedantry 174 The mischiefs of unbounded raillery. His- 176 Directions to authors attacked by criticks. 181 The history of an adventurer in lotteries 182 The history of Leviculus, the fortune-hunter 145 183 The influence of envy and interest compared 151 184 The subject of essays often suggested by Chance. Chance equally prevalent in other 185 The prohibition of revenge justifiable by 194 A young nobleman's progress in politeness 195 A young nobleman's introduction to the 196 Human opinions mutable. The hopes of 197 The history of a legacy-hunter 198 The legacy-hunter's history concluded 199 The virtues of Rabbi Abraham's magnet 200 Asper's complaint of the insolence of Pros- 206 The art of living at the cost of others 207 The folly of continuing too long upon the THE RAMBLER. N° 156. SATURDAY, SEPT. 14 1751. Nunquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit.. JUV. For Wisdom ever echoes Nature's voice. EVERY government, say the politicians, is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution. Every animal body, according to the methodick physicians, is, by the predominance of some exuberant quality, continually declining towards disease and death, which must be obviated by a seasonable reduction of the peccant humour to the just equipoise which health requires. In the same manner the studies of mankind, all at least which, not being subject to rigorous demonstration, admit the influence of fancy and caprice, are perpetually tending to error and confusion. Of the great principles of truth which the first speculatists discovered, the simplicity is embarrassed by ambitious additions, or the evidence obscured by inaccurate argumentation; and as they descend from one succession of writers to another, VOL. IV. A |