THE

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VOL. XLII.

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LIBRARY

CONTENTS.

VOL. XLII.

No.

44. THE story of Ned Drowsy.

45. The same continued.

46. The same concluded.

47. Remarks on the passions. Cases of Palpatius, Pro-

cax, and Splendida.

48. Visit to the house of a deceased friend.

49. Account of a ghost.

50. Reasons for laying aside reading. News-paper cri-

tique of a tragedy of Shakespear.

51. The first library in Egypt. Account of the public

libraries of Rome.

52. Witty sayings of several antients.

53. Delineation of the life of Tiberius.

54. Review of events in the reign of King Charles the

First. Of the education of a prince.

55. Advantages of a happy talent for discerning times

and seasons.

56. The character of a proud man.

57. Advantages of a great fortune well applied. A

poetic rhapsody in the manner of The Task.

58. The visit to Attalus concluded.

59. Notion that death may be avoided at will.

60. Meditations on the character of an infidel.

61. Of the morality of christianity.

62. An argument for the evidences of the christian re-

ligion.

63. Observations upon the several instances of right
reason in the heathen world.