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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II

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Contents

  1. Vol. IV—Great Britain and Ireland—II
  2. Sir Richard Steele
  3. Of Companions and Flatterers
  4. The Story-Teller and His Art
  5. Sir Roger and the Widow
  6. The Coverley Family Portraits
  7. On Certain Symptoms of Greatness
  8. How to Be Happy Tho Married
  9. Lord Bolingbroke
  10. Of the Shortness of Human Life
  11. Rules for the Study of History
  12. Alexander Pope
  13. An Ancient English Country Seat
  14. His Compliments to Lady Mary
  15. How to Make an Epic Poem
  16. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  17. On Happiness in the Matrimonial State
  18. Inoculation for the Smallpox
  19. Of Good Manners, Dress and the World
  20. Of Attentions to Ladies
  21. Henry Fielding
  22. Tom the Hero Enters the Stage
  23. Partridge Sees Garrick at the Play
  24. Mr. Adams in a Political Light
  25. Samuel Johnson
  26. On Publishing His "Dictionary"
  27. Pope and Dryden Compared
  28. Letter to Chesterfield on the Completion of the "Dictionary"
  29. On the Advantages of Living in a Garret
  30. David Hume
  31. The Character of Queen Elizabeth
  32. The Defeat of the Armada
  33. The First Principles of Government
  34. Laurence Sterne
  35. The Starling in Captivity
  36. To Moulines with Maria
  37. The Death of Le Fevre
  38. Passages from the Romance of My Uncle Toby and the Widow
  39. Thomas Gray
  40. Warwick Castle
  41. To His Friend Mason on the Death of Mason's Mother
  42. On His Own Writings
  43. His Friendship for Bonstetten
  44. Horace Walpole
  45. Hogarth
  46. The War in America
  47. The Death of George II
  48. The Chimney-Swallow
  49. Adam Smith
  50. Of Ambition Misdirected
  51. The Advantages of a Division of Labor
  52. Professional Soldiers in Free Countries
  53. Oliver Goldsmith
  54. The Ambitions of the Vicar's Family
  55. Sagacity in Insects
  56. A Chinaman's View of London
  57. Edmund Burke
  58. The Principles of Good Taste
  59. The Letter to a Noble Lord
  60. On the Death of His Son
  61. Marie Antoinette
  62. William Cowper
  63. Of Keeping One's Self Employed
  64. On Johnson's Treatment of Milton
  65. On the Publication of His Books
  66. Edward Gibbon
  67. The Romance of His Youth
  68. The Inception and Completion of His "Decline and Fall"
  69. The Fall of Zenobia
  70. Alaric's Entry Into Rome
  71. The Death of Hosein
  72. The Causes of the Destruction of the City of Rome

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