THESE PAPERS ARE DUTIFULLY INSCRIBED TO HIS BEST BENEFACTOR AND PATRON, HIS MUCH-HONOURED FATHER, AS A HUMBLE EXPRESSION OF HIS LOVE, AND A STILL HUMBLER TRIBUTE TO MANLY VIRTUE AND UNBLEMISHED INTEGRITY OF LIFE, BY WILLIAM ROBERTS, A. M., Late Fellow of C. C. Coll., Oxon. Geddestanuly. 4-6-32 CONTENTS. VOL. XLI. No. Page. 1. INTRODUCTION to the work, with an exposi- 2. A farther account of the nature of the work - 3. Character and plan of the society of which - The government of Echo-Advantages of ........ 17 25 34 44 4. The effect of sudden preferment in loosen- ... nature's works, and the beautiful analogies arising therefrom-The reader prepared for a succession of papers on the subject of religion-Fears of madam Olive-branch for the success of the undertaking 7. Qualifications of Simon Olive-branch for the work-Assistances received-More in- vited---Statement of obligations---Answers 8. On the uses to which solitude may be turned ---Introduction of Eugenio to the reader--- 9. Plan of a female boarding-school, by a pro- jecting friend, designed to carry into effect the principles and reasoning set forth in a dissertation on the Rights of Women---An 11. Modern biography---Heads and particulars of the life of a jack-ass--- Dialogue, after the manner of Fontenelle, between a mo- dern biographer and a kennel-scraper... 105 12. Physical and moral effects of fine weather 13. Comparative biography---Some touching resemblances between Crassus and lord Chatham--Letter from the Projector--- 14. Letters from various ladies, and the per- |