No. 138. The happiness and infelicity of writers.
If we apply to authors themselves for an account of their state, it will appear very little to deserve envy.
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No. 137. Writers not a useless generation.
As man is a being very sparingly furnished with the power of prescience, he can provide for the future only by considering the past.
No. 131. Singularities censured.
In this censure of singularity, I have, therefore, no intention to subject reason or conscience to custom or example.
No. 128. Men differently employed unjustly censured by each other
Every man looks on the occupation or amusement of his neighbour as something below the dignity of our nature.
No. 126. Solitude not eligible.
There has always prevailed among mankind, a propensity to talk much of the delights of retirement.
No. 120. The miseries of life.
Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini: dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet. OVID. Met. Lib. iii. 135. But no frail …
No. 119. The folly of creating artificial wants
Which of mortal men was to be accounted nearest to the gods in happiness — that man who is in want of the fewest things.”
No. 115. The itch of writing universal
The present age, if we consider chiefly the state of our own country, may be styled, with great propriety, The Age of Authors.
No. 111. The pleasures and advantages of industry.
—Quae non fecimus ipsi, Vix ea nostra voco. OVID. The deeds of long descended ancestors Are but by grace of …
No. 108. On the uncertainty of human things
The common neglect of the present hour is more shameful and criminal, as no man is betrayed to it by error, but admits it by negligence.