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RAMBLER, Vol. IV.

Let no Man fay hereafter this fhall be a Day of happiness

Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Feb 711779.by T.Cadell in the Strand.

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THE

RAMBLER.

In FOUR VOLUMES

VOLUME THE FOURTH

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

The NINTH EDITION,

HOR

LONDON:

Brinted for W. STRAHAN, J. RIVINGTON and Sons, J. HIN
TON, B. COLLINS, T. LONGMAN, T. CASLON, B. LAW,
T. CARNAN, G. ROBINSON, T. LOWNDES, T. CADELL,
H. BALDWIN, F. NEWBERY, J, KNOX, J, BEW, J. NI
CHOLS, W. GOLDSMITH, W. Fox, and W. CATER

MDCCLXXIX.

CONTENTS

OF THE

FOURTH VOLUME.

NUMB.

160 Rules for the choice of affociates.

161 The revolutions of a garret.

162 Old men in danger of falling into pupillage. The con-

duct of Thrafybulus.

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46

\163 The mischiefs of following a patron.

164 Praise univerfally defired. The failings of eminent men

often imitated.

165 The impotence of wealth. The vifit of Serotinus to the

place of his nativity.

166 Favour not easily gained by the poor.

167 The marriage of Hymenæus and Tranquilla.

168 Poetry debased by mean expreffions. An example from

Shakespear.

169 Labour neceffary to excellence.

170 The hiftory of Mifella debauched by her relation.

171 Mifella's defcription of the life of a proftitute.

172 The effect of fudden riches upon the manners.

173 Unreasonable fears of pedantry.

174 The mischiefs of unbounded raillery. Hiftory of Dica-

culus.

176 Directions to authors attacked by criticks. The various

degrees of critical perfpicacity.

177 An account of a club of antiquaries.

178 Many advantages not to be enjoyed together.

179 The aukward merriment of a student.

102

180 The ftudy of life not to be neglected for the fake of

books.

107,

181 The hiftory of an adventurer in lotteries.

113

182 The hiftory of Leviculus, the fortune-hunter.

119

183 The influence of envy and intereft compared.

125

84 The fubject of effays often fuggefted by chance.. Chance
equally prevalent in other affairs,

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