No. 108. Life sufficient to all purposes if well employed.
Sapere aude: Incipe. Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam, Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne …
Monthly Archives: March 1751
No. 107. Properantia’s hopes of a year of confusion. The misery of prostitutes.
Alternis igitur contendere versibns ambo Coepere: alternos Musoe meminisse volebant. VIRG. Ec. vii. 18 On themes alternate now the swains …
No. 106. The vanity of an author’s expectations. Reasons why good authors are sometimes neglected.
Opinionum commenta delet dies, natura judicia Confirmat. CICERO, vi. Att. 1. Time obliterates the fictions of opinion, and confirms the …
No. 105. The universal register; a dream.
A universal register, an office, in which every man may lodge an account of whatever he desires to purchase or to sell.
No. 104. The original of flattery. The meanness of venal praise.
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
No. 103. The prevalence of curiosity. The character of Nugaculus.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristicks of a vigorous intellect.
No. 102. The voyage of life.
Gaze not idly upon others when thou thyself art sinking. Whence is this thoughtless tranquillity, when thou and they are equally endangered?
No. 101. A proper audience necessary to a wit.
I resolved to quit the university, where I considered myself as a gem hidden in the mine, and to mingle in the crowd of publick life.
No. 100. Modish pleasures.
By encouraging people to employ their whole attention on trifles, and make amusement their sole study, you will teach them how to avoid many very uneasy reflections.