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OBSERVER.
-Multorum providus urbes,
Et mores hominum inspexit.
HOR. EPIST. i. 2. 19.
No. 52
102.
CONTENTS.
VOL. XXXIII.
No.
52. Witty sayings of several ancients.
53. Delineation of the life of Tiberius.
54. Review of events in the reign of King Charles
the First. Of the education of a prince.
55. Advantages of a happy talent for discerning
times and seasons.
56. The character of a proud man.
57. Advantages of a great fortune well applied.
A poetic rhapsody in the manner of The
Task.
58. The visit to Attalus concluded.
59. Notion that death may be avoided at will.
60. Meditations on the character of an infidel.
61. Of the morality of Christianity.
62. An argument for the evidences of the Christian
religion.
63. Observations upon the several instances of
right reason in the heathen world.
64. Reasons offered à priori for the necessity of a
mediator.
65. Argument of David Levi for the superiority of
the miracles wrought by Moses over those,
which the Evangelists record of Christ.
66. Further defence of the miracles objected to by
David Levi.
67. The origin and progress of poetry.
68. On natural and acquired taste.
69. A delineation of Shakspeare's characters of
Macbeth and Richard.
A parallel be-
tween him and Eschylus.
70. The subject continued.
71. Further continuation.
72. Conclusion of the subject.
73. Remarks upon the characters of Falstaff and
his group:
74. Ben Jonson's imitations of Philostratus com-
pared with the original passages. His sa-
tirical glances at Shakspeare instanced.
75. Review of Ben Jonson's comedy of the Fox.
76. Review of the Sampson Agonistes.
77. Comparative review of Rowe's Fair Penitent
with the Fatal Dowry of Massinger.
78. The same continued.
79. Conclusion of the review.
80. Remarks upon Congreve's comedy of the
Double Dealer.
81. Observations on the various sorts of style.
82. Conversation in a coffee-house upon the time
past compared with the time present.
83. The same concluded.
84. General observations on the social character.
85. Advice to a man of landed property.
86. Author explains the motives of his work.
87. Written on the last day of the year 1789. Short review of the remarkable events with- in the period of that year.
88. The history of Nicolas Pedrosa.
89. The history continued.