Story of Tidelia

XXI

“the hateful gift of Existence

Published by Silvefter Doig Royal Exchange Edin. 1793.

M. Scoll

ADVENTURER.

VOLUME THE THIRD.

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

A NEW EDITION,

ILLUSTRATED WITH FRONTISPIECES,

Ex Libris
Alexis Gorman
St. Louis, Mo.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR SILVESTER DOIG, ROYAL EXCHANGE, EDINBURGH.

1793 CARDED

MARILLAS COLLEGE LIBRARY

OFFNORMANDY, MO.
8981

A24 1993 V 3

CONTENTS

OF THE

THIRD VOLUME.

Page

77 The mischiefs of fuperftition and infidelity.

1 Letters from fix characters

72 The folly of human wishes and schemes to cor-

rect the moral government of the world

The hiftory of Nouraddin and Amana

73 The history of Nouraddin and Amana conclud-

ed

74 Apology for neglecting officious advice

75 Obfervations on the Odyffey of Homer

76 The mercy of affliction: an Eastern story

The hiftory of Fidelia

78 The history of Fidelia continued

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79 The history of Fidelia concluded

63

80 Obfervations on the Odyffey continued

73

81 Incitement to enterprife and emulation. Some

account of the admirable Crichton

82 Perfonal beauty produced by moral sentiment

83 Obfervations on the Odyffey concluded

80

87

93

84 Folly

No.

84 Folly of falfe pretences to importance. A jour-

ney in a flage coach

85 Study, compofition, and converfe, equally ne-

ceffary to intellectual accomplishment

86 The life of Agamus, an old debauchee

87 Politeness a neceffary auxiliary to knowledge

and virtue

88 Obfervations on dreaming and madness. Re-

markable lunacy of Mr. Simon Browne

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98

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89 A fragment of Simonides, and an imitation of it 133

90 Literary offerings in the temple of fame: A

91 No univerfal rule of moral conduct, as it re-

fpects fociety. Story of Yamoddin and Ta-

mira

92 Criticism on the Paftorals of Virgil

93 Obfervations on the Tempeft of Shakespeare

94 Idlenefs, however fortunate, incapable of feli-

city. Story of Ned Froth

99 Apology for apparent plagiarifm. Sources of

literary variety

96 The neceffity of reducing imagination under

the dominion of reafon, exemplified

97 Obfervations on the tempeft concluded

98 Account of Tim. Wildgoofe by himfelf. Pro-

ject to prevent the disappointment of mo-

dern ambition

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99 Projectors injudiciously cenfured and applauded 201

100 Gradation from a Greenhorn to a Blood: the

life of Nomentanus

101 Blemishes in the Paradife Loft

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102 Infe.