THE ADVENTURER. By John Hawkeswort la VOLUME THE FIRST. .....Tentanda via est; qua me quoque possim On vent'rous wing in quest of praise I go, PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED FOR SAMUEL F. BRADFORD, NO. 4, SOUTH 30, CHESNUT-STREET. H. MAXWELL, PRINTER. CONTENTS. 1 COURAGE, why honoured as a virtue. Adventurer 2 Intellectual and corporal labour compared. 4 Of the different kinds of Narrative, and why they 5 Remark on dreaming. Various transmigrations 16 Of instructing by Fiction.. 17 Curiosity necessary to Entertainment and Know- 19 Proposals to improve the Dramatic Entertainment of the Animal Comedians. 20 Imperceptible Deviation to Vice. Moral use of Parallel between an Evening spent at the Play- house, and the several Stages of Life ... vii MEMOIRS OF JOHN HAWKESWORTH, L.L. D. DR. JOHN HAWKESWORTH was born in London, in the year 1719, though by his epitaph, inserted in the Gentleman's Magazine, for August, 1781, he seems to have been born in 1715; be that as it may, he was brought up to a mechanical profession, after an irregular and interrupted education, obtained in the common form of school learning. He was apprenticed to a watch-maker, but does not appear to have served out his apprenticeship, or he must have entered upon the stage of life before the expiration of that period. He was early bred to a serious way of thinking among the Presbyterians of the sect which met under the ministry of the celebrated Bradbury, but from whose Meeting he was soon expelled for some youthful irregularity. He seems to have been early devoted to letters, and became an author of considerable note before he was quite twenty years of age. His residence hitherto had been in London, where the hurry of business, and the constant distractions of pleasure, had caused him to pay but irregular devo |