ADVENTURER.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

~Tentanda via eft; quâ me quoque poffim
Tollere humo, victorque virûm volitare per ora. VIRG
On vent'rous wing in quest of praise I go.
And leave the gazing multitude below.

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MARMANDY, MO. 1793:

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A24 1793 V.2

CONTENTS

OF THE

SEGOND VOLUME.

1

No.

36. Directions to the ladies, for their conduct to a

husband

37 Happiness properly estimated by its degree in

whatever fubject. Remarkable inflances of

cruelty to brutes. Elegy on a blackbird

38 No life pleafing to GOD, that is not useful to

man; an eastern story

39 An encomium on fleep

40 The existence of evil, and unequal diftribution

of happiness and mifery, neceflary to exercife

virtue and animate hope

Page

I

7

17

24

31

41 Sequel to the ftory of Mifargyrus

39

42 Folly of pleading inability to difcharge the du-

ties of life

45

43 Adventures of a halfpenny

44 Turpitude and infamy of betraying private

converfation

45 The difficulty of forming confederacies,

51

58

63

46 Obli-

No.

46 Obligations to fecrecy critically stated,

47 A parallel between Alexander and a high-

wayman,

48 How far the precept to love our enemies is

practicable

49 Parallel between ancient and modern learn-

ing

50 On lying

1 Translation of a manufcript of Longinus late-

ly discovered, containing a comparison of

celebrated paffages in Pagan and Jewish

writers

Page

69

75

83

89

96

102

52 Diftreffes of an author invited to read his play 109

53 Mifargyrus's account of his companions in the

58 Prefumption of modern criticifm cenfured. An-

cient poetry neceffarily obfcure. Examples

from Horace.

150

59 Poets not univerfally or neceffarily poor,

60 Satan's letter in behalf of religion and virtue

61 Honour both as a motive and an end, prefup-

pofes virtue; an allegory

158

165

171

62 Mifargyrus's account of his companions con-

cluded

179

63 Paucity of original writers. Paffages which
Pope has borrowed, pointed out

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