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EIGHTH VOL U M E.

THE ĮDLER.

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į IDLER's character.

2 Invitation to correspondents,

3 Idler's reason for writing.

4 Charities and hospitals,

5 Proposal for a female army,

6 Lady's performance on horseback

7 Scheme for news-writers.

8 Plan of military discipline.

9 Progress of idleness.

10 Political credulity.

11 Discourses on the weather.

12 Marriages why advertised.

13 The imaginary housewife,

14 Robbery of time.

15 Tracle's complaint of his wife.

16 Drugger's retirement.

17 Expedients of Idlers.

18 Drugget vindicated.

19 Whirler's character.

20 Loxifoourg's history.

21 Linger's history of listlessness.

22 Imprisonment of debtors.

33 Uncertainty of friendship.

24 Man does not always think.'

25 New actors on the theatre.

26 Betty Broom's history.

29 Power of habits.

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28 Wedding.

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28 Wedding day Grocer's wife-Chairman.

29 Betty Broom's history,

30 Corruption of news-writers.

31 Disguises of idleness, Sober's character.

32 Sleep.

33 Journal of a fellow of a college.

34 Punch and conversation.

35 Auction hunter.

36 The terrifick diction,

37 Iron and gold.

38 Debtors in prison.

39 The bracelet.

40 Art of advertising.

41 On the death of a friend.

42 Perdita's complaint of her father,

43 Monitions on the flight of time,

*4 Use of memory, .

45 Portraits defended,

46 Molly Quick's complaint of her mistress.

47 Deborab Ginger's account of city wits,

48 The bustles of idleness,

49 Marvel's journey.

50 Marvel paralleled.

5: Domestick greatness unattainable.

52 Self-denial necessary.

53 Mischiefs of good company,

54 Mrs. Savec barge's complaint.

55 Author's mortifications,

56 Virtuosos whimsical.

57 Character of Sogbron the pradent.

58 Expectations of pleasure frustrated,

59 Books fall into neglect.

10 Minime the critick,

61 Mirim the critick.

62 Ranger's account of the vanity of riches.

63 Progress of arts and language.

64 Ranger's complaint concluded.

65 Fate of posthumous works,

66 Loss of ancient writings.

67 Scholar's journal,

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68 History of translations.
69 History of translations.

o Hard words defended.
71 Dick Shifter's rural excursion.
72 Regulation of memory.
73 Tranquil's use of riches.
74 Memory rarely deficient,
75 Gelaleddin of Basora.
76 False criticisms on painting,
77 Easy writing.
78 Steady, Snug, Startle, Solid, and Mifty.
79 Grand style of painting,
80 Ladies journey to London.
81 Indian's speech to his countrymen.
82 The true idea of beauty.
83 Scruple, Wormwood, Sturdy, and Gentle.
84. Biography how best performed.
85 Books multiplied by useless compilations.
86 Miss Heartless's want of a lodging.
87 Amazonian bravery revived.

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89 Phylic have ye very reviseodging.

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89 Physical evil moral good. 90 Rhetorical action considered. 91 Sufficiency of the English language. 92 Nature of cunning. 93 Sam Softly's history. 94. Obstructions of learning. 95 Tim Wainscot's fon a fine gentleman. 96 Hacho of Lapland. 97 Narratives of travellers considered. 98 Sopbia Heedfull. 99 Ortogrul of Bafra. .. 100 The good fort of woman. jou Omar's plan of life, 102 Authors inattentive to themselves. 103 Horfour of the last.

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A D V E R TISE M E N T.

THE Idler having omitted to distinguish the Esays

of his Correspondents by any particular signature, thinks it necesary to inforın bis Readers, that from the ninth, the fifteenth, thirty-third, forty-Second, fifty-fourth, fixty-Seventh, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-ninth, eighty-second, ninety-third, ninety-sixth, and ninetyeighth Papers he claims no other praise then tbat of having given them to the Publick.

“ Duplex libelli dos est, quod risum movet,
“ Et quod prudenti vitam confilio monet.”

PHAEDRUS.
Xápis jesxpoños.