The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The citizen of the world. Polite learning in Europe. - v. 4. Biographies. Criticisms. Later collected essays

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Of falsehood propagated by books seemingly sincere
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The story of the Chinese matron
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Some account of the republic of letters in England
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The vendors of quack medicines and nostrums ridiculed
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The history of the Man in Black
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On the great number of old maids and bachelors
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The perfection of the Chinese in the art of gardening
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The manner of writing among the ChineseThe East
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The philosophers son describes a lady his fellow
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The Chinese philosopher praises the justice of a late
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Misery best relieved by dissipation
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The fairy tale continued
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An attempt to define what is meant by English liberty
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A booksellers visit to the Chinese
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The impossibility of distinguishing men in England by their dressTwo instances of this
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The absurd taste for obscene and pert novels such as Tristram Shandy ridiculed PAGE 184 187
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The character of an important trifler Beau Tibbs 203
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His character continued with that of his wife his house and furniture
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Some thoughts on the present situation of affairs in the different countries of Europe
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The difficulty of rising in literary reputation without intrigue or riches
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A visitation dinner described
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The Chinese philosophers son escapes with the beau tiful captive from slavery 206
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The history of the beautiful captive
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Proper lessons to a youth entering the world with fables suited to the occasion The Conjurer and the Tailor The Goose and the Mastiff The Painter wh...
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An authentic history of Catharina Alexowna wife of Peter the Great
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The rise or decline of literature not dependent on man but resulting from the vicissitudes of nature
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The great exchange happiness for showTheir folly in this respect of use to society
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The history of a philosophic cobbler
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The description of a little great
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The necessity of amusing each other with new books insisted upon
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an allegory
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The behaviour of a shopkeeper and his journeyman
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The French ridiculed after their own manner
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The preparations of both theatres for a winter cam paign 253 258
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OLXXXII The sciences useful in a populous state prejudicial
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The anecdotes of several poets who lived and died
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The races of Newmarket ridiculedThe description
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The ladies advised to get husbandsA story to this
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The English subject to the spleen
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The manner in which some philosophers make artifi
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The father consoles him upon this occasion
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A description of the Courts of Justice in Westminster
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That people must be contented to be guided by those
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The arts some make use of to appear learned
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Funeral elegies written upon the great ridiculedA
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A literary contest of great importance in which both
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On the danger of having too high an opinion of human
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A City Nightpiece
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On the distresses of the poor exemplified in the life
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The irresolution of the English accounted
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¹ The Conclusion
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THE BRAVERY OF THE ENGLISH COMMON SOLDIERS 447
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On the Character of English Officers
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IN EUROPE
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APPENDIX TO THE ENQUIRY
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TitelThe Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The citizen of the world. Polite learning in Europe. - v. 4. Biographies. Criticisms. Later collected essays
Bohn's standard library
Volume 3 van The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: A New Ed. Containing Pieces Hitherto Uncollected, and a Life of the Author, Henry George Bohn
AuteurOliver Goldsmith
UitgeverG. Bell and sons, 1885
Oorspronkelijk uitHarvard University
Gedigitaliseerd23 jan 2009
  
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