EDINBURGH:

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THE SPECTATOR, NO. L.

THE GUARDIAN, No. XCVI.

THE INTELLIGENCER, No. I.

No. III.

No. XIX. .

Preface to Temple's Works,

Preface to the Third Part of Sir William Temple's Miscellanea,

Preface to the Third Volume of Sir William Temple's Letters,

Preface to the Third Part of Sir William Temple's Memoirs; from

the Peace concluded 1679 to the Time of the Author's Retire-

ment from Public Business,

A Meditation upon a Broomstick,

A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind,

A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining, the Eng-

lish Tongue, in a Letter to the most Honourable Robert, Earl

of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of Great Bri-

tain,

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113

115

117

123

127

137

A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet. Together with a Proposal for

the Encouragement of Poetry in Ireland,

183

A Letter to a very Young Lady, on her Marriage,

Resolutions when I come to be Old,

208

221

Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting,

A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding,

Hints on Good Manners,

Of Mean and Great Figures, made by several Persons,

Of Public Absurdities in England,

Of the Education of Ladies,

Three Prayers used by the Dean for Mrs Johnson, in her last Sick-

An Evening Prayer, by Dean Swift, from the Original Manuscript

found amongst Dr Lyon's Papers,

Character of Dr Sheridan,

The History of the Second Solomon,

A serious and useful Scheme to make an Hospital for Incurables,

A complete Collection of General and Ingenious Conversation, ac-

cording to the most Polite Mode and Method, now used at

Court, and in the best Companies of England,

Remarks by the Editor,

Introduction,

Dialogue I.

Dialogue II.

Dialogue III.

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