THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. A NEW EDITION IN TWELVE VOLUMES. WITH AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS, BY ARTHUR MURPHY, Esq. VOLUME THE FOURTH. LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; G. AND W. NICOL; T. EGERTON; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; T. CADELL ; J. NUNN; J. CUTHELL; J. AND W. T. CLARKE; J. BOOKER : J. CARPENTER; JEFFERY AND SON; J. AND A. ARCH; J. BOOTH; J RICHARDSON; HATCHARD AND SON; W. GINGER; R. H. EVANS; J. MAWMAN; R. SCHOLEY ; BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY; SHERWOOD AND JONES; T. HAMILTON; J. ROBINSON; R. SAUNDERS; HARDING, MAVOR, AND LEPARD; G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER; LLOYD AND SON: J. BOHN; T. TEGG; T. WILKIE; OGLE AND CO.; SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL; KINGSBURY, PARBURY, AND ALLEN; G. MACKIE; J. PORTER ; G. GREENLAND; W. MASON; J. COLLINGWOOD; W. WOOD; HURST AND ROBINSON: J. RACKHAM ; AND DEIGHTON AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE; BRODIE, DOWDING, AND CO. SALISBURY; AND BELL AND BRADFUTE; AND J. FAIRBAIRN, AT EDINBURGH. 155. The usefulness of advice. The danger of habits. The necessity of reviewing life 95 164. Praise universally desired. 162. Old men in danger of falling into pupilage. The conduct of Thrasybulus 163. The mischiefs of following a patron eminent men often imitated. 165. The impotence of wealth. The visit of Scrotinus to the place of his nativity 166. Favour not easily gained by the poor 171. Misella's description of the life of a prostitute 172. The effect of sudden riches upon the manners of Dicaculus 176. Directions to authors attacked by criticks. various degrees of critical perspicacity 177. An account of a club of antiquaries 181. The history of an adventurer in lotteries 182. The history of Leviculus, the fortune-hunter 183. The influence of envy and interest compared 184. The subject of essays often suggested by chance. Chance equally prevalent in other 185. The prohibition of revenge justifiable by reason. 186. Anningait and Ajut, a Greenland history 187. The history of Anningait and Ajut concluded 189. The mischiefs of falsehood. The character of 190. The history of Abouzaid, the son of Morad 192. Love unsuccessful without riches 193. The author's art of praising himself 194. A young nobleman's progress in politeness 195. A young nobleman's introduction to the know- 196. Human opinions mutable. The hopes of youth 199. The virtues of Rabbi Abraham's magnet 200. Asper's complaint of the insolence of Prospero, Unpoliteness not always the effect of pride. 346 201. The importance of punctuality 202. The different acceptations of poverty. Cynicks |