THE

RAMBLER.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

Nullius addictus jurare in verba magiftri,
Quo me cunque rapit tempeftas, deferor hofpes.

HOR.

THE TENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, B. Collins
T. Longman, B. Law, C. Dilly, T. Carnan, J. Robson,
G. Robinfon, T. Lowndes, T. Cadell, W. Cater,
H. Baldwin, T. Newbury, J. Knox, J. Bew, J. Nichols,
W. Goldfmith, J. Murray, T. Evans, W. Fox, and
J. Macqueen,

MDCCLXXXIV.

CONTENT S

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OF THE

SECOND VOLUME..

54 A death-bed the true school of wisdom. The effects of death upon the furvivors.

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The

gay widow's impatience of the growth of her daughter. The hiftory of mifs May-pole.

56 The neceffity of complaifance. The Rambler's grief for offending his correfpondents..

57 Sententious rules of frugality.

58 The defire of wealth moderated by philosophy.
59 An account of Sufpirius the human fcreech-owl.
60 The dignity and usefulness of biography.
61 A Londoner's vifit to the country.

62 A young lady's impatience to see London.
63 Inconftancy not always a weakness.
64 The requifites to true friendship.

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65 Obidab and the hermit, an Eastern story. 66 Paffion not to be eradicated.

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ill directed.

67 The garden of hope, a dream.

The views of women

68 Every man chiefly happy or miserable at home. The

opinion of fervants not to be defpifed.

69 The miferies and prejudices of old age.

70 Different men virtuous in different degrees. The vicious not always abandoned.

71 No man believes that his own life will be fhort. 72 The neceffity of good-humour.

73 The lingering expectation of an heir.
74 Peevishness equally wretched and offenfive.
character of Tetrica.

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75 The world never known but by a change of fortune.

The hiftory of Melissa.

76 The arts by which bad men are reconciled to them

felves.

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