THE

WORKS

OF

Samuel Johnfon, LL.D.

IN ELEVEN VOLUMES.

VOL. VIII.

LONDON:

Printed for J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis,
B. White and Son, T. Longman, B. Law, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Robson,
J. Johnfon, C. Dilly, T. Vernor, W. Nicoll, G. G. J. and J. Robinfon,
T. Cadell, T. Carnan, J. Nichols, J. Bew, R. Baldwin, N. Conant, P. Elmsly,
W. Goldsmith, J. Knox, R. Faulder, Leigh and Sotheby, G. Nicol, J. Murray,
A. Strahan, W. Lowndes, T. Evans, W. Bent, S. Hayes, G. and T. Wilkie,
T. and J. Egerton, W. Fox, P. McQueen, D. Ogilvie, B. Collins, E. Newbery,
and R. Jamefon,

M DCC LXXXVII.

10 Political credulity.

11 Difcourses on the weather.

12 Marriages why advertised.

13 The imaginary housewife.

14 Robbery of time.

15 Treacle's complaint of his wife.

16 Drugget's retirement.

17 Expedients of Idlers.

18 Drugget vindicated.

19 Whirler's character.

20 Louisbourg's history.

21 Linger's history of listlessness.

22 Imprisonment of debtors.

23 Uncertainty of friendship.

24 Man does not always think.

25 New actors on the theatre.

26 Betty Broom's history.

27 Power of habits.

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