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OBSERVER.

-Multorum providus urbes

Et mores hominum inspexit

-HORAT.

BY RICHARD CUMBERLAND, ESQ.

N° 1-51.

VOL. XXXVIII.

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1. INTRODUCTORY paper. Some description of the present work, particularly of the literary anecdotes of Greece. 2. Sect of the Dampers described. Quotation from Pliny's letters.

3. Love of praise. Instances of flattery in the dedication of Sepulveda to the king of Spain, also in Ben Jonson's masques in the court of James I. That poet an imitator of Aristophanes. Vanity of authors in prefixing their prints to their works. Portrait of a citizen on horseback. Anecdote of a dancing-master and his scholar.

4. Visit to Sir Theodore and Lady Thimble. Their country house and family described.

5. Visit continued. Calliope reads part of an epic poem. Doctor Mac Infidel discourses against Christ's mira

cles.

6. Conversation with Calliope subsequent to Dr. Mac In fidel's discourse. Two letters from Captain Henry Constant to that young lady.

7. Calliope's interview and reconciliation with Captain Constant described in a letter from that young lady.

8. History of Pythagoras.

9. The same continued to his death.

10. Pythagoras compared with Christ; the heathen argument against revealed religion.

11. Defence of Christ's miracles against modern cavils, par

ticularly of the supernatural darkness at the passion. 12. Danger of sudden elevation. Quotation from Ben Jon

son's Sir Epicure Mammon. Letters from Pisistratus to Solon, and Solon to Pisistratus, in answer. Anecdotes of the latter.

13. On the subject of divorces, with ironical rules for their further propagation and encouragement. 14. Tragic story of Abdullah and Quarima.

15. Upon resignation to Providence. Diary of Chaubert the misanthrope.

16. Chaubert's diary concluded. Translation of a fragment of Philemon.

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