JA No. CONTENTS. 148. The Cruelty of Parental Tyranny 159. The Nature and Remedies of Bashfulness 160. Rules for the Choice of Associates 176. Directions to Authors Attacked by Critics. The Various Degrees of Critical Perspicacity 178. Many Advantages not to be Enjoyed Together. 180. The Study of Life not to be Neglected for the 185. The Prohibition of Revenge Justifiable by Reason. 8 31 36 42 49 56 200. Asper's Complaint of the Insolence of Prospero. Unpoliteness not always the Effect of Pride 62 THE ADVENTURER. 99. Projectors Injudiciously Censured and Applauded ΙΟΙ No. 148. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1751. Me pater sævis oneret catenis Me let my father load with chains, In kind compassion, sav'd my husband's life.-FRANCIS. OLITICIANS remark, that no oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. The robber may be seized, and the invader repelled, whenever they are found; they who pretend no right but that of force, may by force be punished or suppressed. But when plunder bears the name of impost, and murder is perpetrated by a judicial sentence, fortitude is intimidated, and wisdom confounded: resistance ΙΣ 1 Horace, 3 Odes, xi. 45. B 108. On the Uncertainty of Human Things III. The Pleasures and Advantages of Ignorance 131. Singularities Censured. 78. Steady, Snug, Startle, Solid, and Misty. 81. An Indian's Speech to his Countrymen 83. Scruple, Wormwood, Sturdy, and Gentle 84. Biography How Best Performed LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Me pater sævis oneret catenis Me vel extremos Numidarum in agros Me let my father load with chains, Or banish to Numidia's farthest plains! My crime, that I, a loyal wife, In kind compassion, sav'd my husband's life.-FRANCIS. OLITICIANS remark, that no oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. The robber may be seized, and the invader repelled, whenever they are found; they who pretend no right but that of force, may by force be punished or suppressed. But when plunder bears the name of impost, and murder is perpetrated by a judicial sentence, fortitude is intimidated, and wisdom confounded: resistance 1 Horace, 3 Odes, xi. 45. |