لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
مكتبتي
الكتب على Google Play
17 JAN 1967
CARY
THE
RAMBLER;
BY
SAMUEL JOHNSON, L.L. D.
A NEW EDITION, CORRECTED FROM THE ORIGINALS.
WITH AN
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE,
BY ALEX. CHALMERS, F.S.A.
VOLUME II.
CONTENTS.
No. THE Employments of a Housewife
51. in the Country
52. The Contemplation of the Calamities
of others, a Remedy for Grief
53. The Folly and Misery of a Spendthrift
54. A Death-bed the true School of Wis-
dom-the Effects of Death upon the Survivors
55. The gay Widow's Impatience of the
Growth of her Daughter-the His-
tory of Miss May-pole
56. The Necessity of Complaisance-the
Rambler's Grief for offending his
correspondents
57. Sententious Rules of Frugality
58. The Desire of Wealth moderated by
Philosophy
59. An Account of Suspirius the human
Screech-owl
60. The Dignity and Usefulness of Biogra-
phy
61. A Londoner's Visit to the Country
62. A young Lady's impatience to see Lon-
63. Inconstancy not always a Weakness
64. The Requisites to true Friendship
JOHNSON.
No.
65. Obidah and the Hermit, an Eastern
Story
66. Passion not to be eradicated-the views
of Women ill directed
67. The Garden of Hope, a Dream
68. Every man chiefly happy or miserable
at Home--the Opinion of Servants
not to be despised
69. The Miseries and Prejudices of old Age
70. Different Men virtuous in different De-
grees the vitious not always aban-
doned
71. No Man believes that his own Life will
be short
72. The Necessity of good Humour
73. The lingering expectation of an Heir
74. Peevishness equally wretched and of-
fensive the Character of Tetrica
75. The World never known but by a
Change of Fortune-the History of
Melissa.
76. The Arts by which bad men are recon-
ciled to themselves
77. The Learned seldom despised but when
they deserve Contempt
78. The Power of Novelty-Mortality too
familiar to raise Apprehensions
79. A suspicious Man justly suspected
80. Variety necessary to Happiness-a
Winter Scene
81. The great Rule of Action-Debts of
Justice to be distinguished from
Debts of Charity