Printed for T. Longman, B. White and Son, B. Law, J. Dodfley, H. Baldwin, J. Robfon, J. Johnfon, C. Dilly, T. Vernor, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, N. Conant, P. Elmfly, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, W. Goldfmith, R. Faulder, Leigh and Sotheby, G. Nicol, J. Murray, A. Strahan, W. Lowndes, T. Evans, W. Bent, S. Hayes, G. and T. Wilkie, T. and J. Egerton, W. Fox, P. M'Queen, Ogilvie and Speare, Darton and Harvey, G. and C. Kearfley, W. Millar, B. C. Collins, and E. Newbery. M DCC XCII. CONTENTS O F THE SIXTH VOLUME. NUMB. THE RAMBLER, Concluded. 141 The danger of attempting wit in conversation. The character of Papilius 142 An account of fquire Blufter 143 The criterions of plagiarism 144 The difficulty of raising reputation. The various fpecies of detractors 145 Petty writers not to be despised 146 An account of an author travelling in queft of his own character. The uncertainty of fame 147 The courtier's efteem of affurance 148 The cruelty of parental tyranny 149 Benefits not always intituled to gratitude 151 The climactericks of the mind Page 7 14 22 28 33 39 45 51 57 63 155 The usefulness of advice. The danger of habits. The neceffity of reviewing life 88 156 The laws of writing not always indifputable. Reflec tions on tragi-comedy 95 157 The scholar's complaint of his own bashfulness 2 ΙΟΥ 107 159 The 161 The revolutions of a garret 123 162 Old men in danger of falling into pupillage. The con- 129 163 The mischiefs of following a patron 135 164 Praise univerfally defired. The failings of eminent men 142 165 The impotence of wealth. The vifit of Serotinus to the place of his nativity 166 Favour not eafily gained by the poor 146 153 167 The marriage of Hymenæus and Tranquilla 158 168 Poetry debased by mean expreffions. An example from 164 169 Labour neceffary to excellence 169 170 The hiftory of Mifella debauched by her relation 176 Directions to authors attacked by criticks. The various degrees of critical perfpicacity 180 The ftudy of life not to be neglected for the fake of 231 181 The hiftory of an adventurer in lotteries 237 243 183 The influence of envy and interest compared 249 184 The fubject of effays often fuggefted by chance. 254 185 The prohibition of revenge justifiable by reason. The of men 259 186 Anningait and Ajut, a Greenland history 187 The hiftory of Anningait and Ajut concluded 488 Favour often gained with little affiftance from under- 265 standing 277 189 The |