The Rambler

J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787

pointment	7

NUMB Page 14 The difference between an authors writings and	14

A meditation on the Spring	27

Happineſs not local	33

Retirement natural to a great mind Its religious ufe	40

The thoughts to be brought under regulation as they	46

The fondnefs of every man for his profeffion The	53

The folly of anger The mifery of a peevish old age	66

Raſhneſs preferable to cowardice Enterprize not to be repreffed	162

The miſchief of extravagance and mifery of dependance	168

An authors treatment from fix patrons	175

The various arts of felfdelufion	181

The folly of anticipating misfortunes	188

The obfervance of Sunday recommended an allegory	194

The defence of a known miſtake highly culpable	199

The vanity of ftoicifm The neceffity of patience	207

The hiftory of a young woman that came to London	73

The duty of fecrecy The invalidity of all excufes	81

converfation	88

The folly of cards A letter from a lady that has loft her money	95

The dangers and miſeries of literary eminence	103

The frequent contemplation of death neceffary to mo derate the paffions	110

The unhappinefs of marriage caufed by irregular mo tives of choice	116

The danger of ranging from one ftudy to another The importance of the early choice of a profeffion	123

zo The folly and inconvenience of affectation	131

The anxieties of literature not less than thoſe of publick ftations The inequality of authors writings	137

An allegory on wit and learning	144

The contrariety of criticiſm The vanity of objection An author obliged to depend upon his own judgment	150

The neceffity of attending to the duties of common life The natural character not to be forfaken	156

An allegorical hiſtory of reſt and labour	213

The uneafinefs and difguft of female cowardice	219

A marriage of prudence without affection	226

The reafons why paftorals delight	232

The true principles of paftoral poetry	238

The advantages of mediocrity An Eaftern fable	245

The unhappineſs of women whether fingle or married	251

The difficulty of giving advice without offending	257

The advantages of memory	263

The mifery of a modiſh lady in folitude	270

The inconveniencies of precipitation and confidence	276

Religion	284

Title	The Rambler Volume 5 of The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, Sir Joshua Reynolds
Authors	Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins
Illustrated by	Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Hall
Contributors	James Buckland, John Rivington, Charles Rivington, Francis Rivington, Thomas Payne, Lockyer Davis, Benjamin White, B. White and Son, T. Payne and Son
Publisher	J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	20 Jun 2007

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