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LITERARY and MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

An essay on augury

Linnaeus's dream

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Avarice and Glory, an history. By the King of Prussia

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The dying advice of a late eminent prelate, &c.
On the attention due to the poor, &c.

Thoughts on various subjects. By Sir Hildebrand Jacob
On the duty of clemency to brutes

The folly of being dissatisfied with the times we live in

Character of the English

On the extraordinary cleverness of the moderns

On the country manners of the present age

A prophecy by Monsieur Voltaire

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Character of a mighty good kind of man

Character of a good sort of woman.

POETRY.

Truth at court. By a reverend dean

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The patriot king, or George the Third

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Ode for the New Year 1761, by William Whitehead, Esq.

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An epistle to a friend, on the expected arrival of the queen

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Humility exalted; or the glorious transformation

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Verses on the king's marriage. By Mr. Spence. From the Oxford

collection

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To the queen. By Mr. Warton

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By the Hon. John Gray, From the Cambridge collection

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To a noble Lord on his late poetical compositions

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On a noble Lawyer's addition to the above noble Lord's poem on a
Lady

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On the above Lord's reply to the noble Lawyer's addition
Under a cast of the Venus de Medicis, at the Leasowes

ibid.

Verses occasioned by an incident at the seat of William Shenstone, Esq. 244
To William Shenstone, Esq. The production of half an hour's leisure 246
To Mr. S. upon is desiring her to paint his picture. By Miss Loggin 247
To a Lady

ibid.

The answer. By a Lady

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Wrote to an admirable Lady under misfortunes and undeserved con-

finement

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Wrote on a tomb-stone, where is laid the skull of a man

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Wrote on another tomb-stone, where is laid the skull of a woman
Upon a child of two years old crying

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A copy of Verses, on seeing a boy walk on stilts, ly

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The rainbow. Afable

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Epigram, on the Seahorse, with the astronomers on board, &c.

Lines from Mr. Gk to a nobleman, &c.

Epitaph on Admiral Boscawen

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Epigram on a report of the king of Spain's marrying Madame Victoire 263
Epigram made by an Hessian officer upon Marshal Broglio's being

so near taken on the 10th of July, 1761, &c.

Advice from a matron to a young lady concerning wedlock
Character of Mrs. Cibber. From the Rosciad

Mrs. Pritchard, from the same

Mr. Quin, from the same

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The songs of Selma. From the original of Ossian the son of Fingal 270
Letter to the author of the Annual Register

ACCOUNT of BOOKS for 1761.

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Fingal, an ancient epic poem

The death of Abel®

The private life of the Romans

Hume's history of England

An historical and critical enquiry into the evidence produced by the
earls of Murray and Morton, against Mary, Queen of Scots

THE END.

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