The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings, Tom 2

Baudry's European Library, 1837

LETTERS FROM A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD TO	7

The tie of wisdom only to make us happy The benefits of tra	26

939	40

An Account of Westminster Abbey	49

3333	59

III	113

Of the present ridiculous passion of the nobility for paint	128

A continuance of his correspondence The beautiful cap	141

The necessity of amusing each other with new books in sisted upon	305

The preference of grace to beauty an allegory	309

The behaviour of a shopkeeper and his journeyman	313

The French ridiculed after their own manner	316

The preparations of both theatres for a winter campaign	319

The evil tendency of increasing penal laws or enforcing even those already in being with rigour	322

The ladies trains ridiculed	326

The sciences useful in a populous state prejudicial in a barbarous one	329

The correspondence still continued He begins to be dis	144

The Chinese philosopher praises the justice of a late sen	150

The absurd taste for obscene and pert novels such as Tris	213

Letter Page LXI Proper lessons to a youth entering the world with fables suited to the occasion 246	214

An authentic history of Catherina Alexowna wife of Pe ter the Great 250	215

His character continued with that of his wife his house	220

The difficulty of rising in literary reputation without	228

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

The description of a little great man	301

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	348

The folly of the western parts of Europe in employing the Russians to fight their battles	350

The ladies advised to get husbands A story to this pur	353

dispositions of the English	366

The fondness of some to admire the writings of lords	373

the late king ridiculed English mourning described	380

A description of the courts of justice in Westminster	387

A life of independence praised	394

The Chinese philosopher begins to think of quitting Eng	403

The utility and entertainment which might result from	419

An election described	438

On the danger of having too high an opinion of human	448

On the meanness of the Dutch at the court of Japan	459

On the absurdity of some late English titles	468

The conclusion	478

Tytuł	The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings, Tom 2 Collection of ancient and modern British authors The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings, Oliver Goldsmith
Autor	Oliver Goldsmith
Redaktor	Washington Irving
Wydawca	Baudry's European Library, 1837
W formie oryginalnej	Uniwersytet Harvarda
W formie cyfrowej	4 Mar 2009

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