The Rambler, Volume 1

W. Suttaby, 1809 - English essays

DIFFICULTY of the first address Practice of	1

No Page 22 An allegory on wit and learning 127	6

Retirement natural to a great mind Its religious	7

The duty of secresy The invalidity of all	13

The necessity of attending to the duties of com mon life The natural character not to be for saken 137	24

Rashness preferable to cowardice Enterprise not to be repressed 142	25

The mischief of extravagance and misery of	26

The dangers and miseries of literary eminence	91

A marriage of prudence without affection	199

The reasons why pastorals delight	205

The true principles of pastoral poetry	210

The advantages of mediocrity An eastern fable	216

The anxieties of literature not less than those	218

ried	222

The unhappiness of women whether single or mar 40 The difficulty of giving advice without offending	227

The advantages of memory	233

The frequent contemplation of death necessary	97

The danger of ranging from one study to another	109

The folly and inconvenience of affectation	116

p of criticism The vanity of oljec	132

pendance	148

An authors treatment from six patrons	154

The various arts of selfdelusion	159

The folly of anticipating misfortunes	167

The mischiefs	168

The observance of Sunday recommended an al legory	171

The defence of a known mistake highly culpable	176

The vanity of stoicism The necessity of pa tience	182

An allegorical history of rest and labour	188

The uneasiness and disgust of female cowardice	193

The misery of a modish lady in solitude	239

The inconveniences of precipitation and confi dence	244

Religion and superstition a vision	250

The miseries of stitution	251

The causes of disagreement in marriage	256

The mischiefs of rural faction	261

The proper means of regulating sorrow	266

The miseries of an infirm constitution	272

A disquisition upon the value of fame	277

A virtuous old age always reverenced	282

The employments of a housewife in the country	287

The contemplation of the calamities of others a remedy for grief	294

The folly and misery of a spendthrift	299

A deathbed the true school of wisdom The ef fects of death upon the survivors	304

Title	The Rambler, Volume 1 Volumes 15-18 of British classics The Rambler, Samuel Johnson
Author	Samuel Johnson
Publisher	W. Suttaby, 1809
Original from	University of Bern
Digitized	Dec 13, 2021

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