The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.

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J. Johnson, G. and J. Robinson, W.J. and J. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son, F. and C. Rivington, J. Matthews, J. Walker, W. Lowndes, J. Scatcherd, G. Wilkie, P. McQueen, Longman and Rees, Vernor and Hood, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, Murray and Highley, and E. Newbery, 1825

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The English subscription in favour of the French prisoners
84
pose
113
The manner of writing among the Chinese The eastern
128
Of the present ridiculous passion of the nobility for paint
134
A continuance of his correspondence The beautiful cap
141
The correspondence still continued He begins to be dis
144
The Chinese philosopher praises the justice of a late sen
150
The history of China more replete with great actions than
165
The folly of remote or useless disquisitions among
172
The absurd taste for obscene and pert novels such as Tris
213
Proper lessons to a youth entering the world with fables Page suited to the occasion 246
214
An authentic history of Catherina Alexowna wife of Pe ter the Great 250
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Some thoughts on the present situation of affairs in
225
The rise or the decline of literature not dependent on man but resulting from the vicissitudes of nature
256
The great exchange happiness for show Their folly in this respect of use to society
259
The history of a philosophic cobbler
262
The difference between love and gratitude
265
The folly of attempting to learn wisdom by being recluse
270
Quacks ridiculed Some particularly mentioned
274
The fear of maddogs ridiculed
279
Fortune proved not to be blind The story of the avari cious miller
284
The shabby beau the man in black the Chinese philoso pher etc at Vauxhall
287
The marriage act censured
293
Life endeared by age
298
Some cautions on life taken from a modern philosopher of China
330
Anecdotes of several poets who lived and died in circum stances of wretchedness
338
The trifling squabbles of stageplayers ridiculed
342
The races of Newmarket ridiculed The description of a cartrace
347
The folly of the western parts of Europe in employing the Russians to fight their battles
350
dispositions of the English
368
The philosophers son is again separated from his beau
376
land
403
Funeral elegies written upon the great ridiculed
413
The utility and entertainment which might result from
419
On the different sects in England particularly Methodism
431
An election described
435
A literary contest of great importance in which both sides fight by epigram
438
Against the marriage act A fable
443
ture
448
Whether love be a natural or fictitious passion
452
A city nightpiece
456
On the meanness of the Dutch at the court of Japan
459
On the distresses of the poor exemplified in the life of a private sentinel
462
On the absurdity of some late English titles
468
The irresolution of the English accounted for
471
The manner of travellers in their usual relations ridiculed
473
The conclusion
478

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TítuloThe miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.
Volume 3 de “The” miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver Goldsmith
AutorOliver Goldsmith
EditoraJ. Johnson, G. and J. Robinson, W.J. and J. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son, F. and C. Rivington, J. Matthews, J. Walker, W. Lowndes, J. Scatcherd, G. Wilkie, P. McQueen, Longman and Rees, Vernor and Hood, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, Murray and Highley, and E. Newbery, 1825
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