THE

ADVENTURER.

THE

ADVENTURER.

BY

JOHN HAWKESWORTH, LL.D.

AND OTHERS,

Tentanda via est; qua me quoque possim
Tollere humo, victorque virum volitare per ora.

VIRG.
On venturous wing in quest of praise I go,
And leave the gazing multitude below.

A NEW EDITION, IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. RICHARDSON AND CO.; G. OFFOR; T. TEGG ;

J. SHARPE AND SON; ROBINSON AND CO.; G. WALKER ;
J. EVANS AND SONS; R. DOBSON; J. JONES; AND J. JOHNSON:
ALSO, J. CARPRAE, AND J. SUTHERLAND, EDINBURGH ;

AND R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW,

1823.

C. Whittingham, Chiswick.

940
A 244
1823

CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

NO.

1. Courage, why honoured as a Virtue. Adventurer

characterized, and his Achievements projected.

Hawkesworth.

2. Intellectual and corporal Labour compared.

Hawkesworth.

3. Project for a new Pantomime Entertainment.

Bathurst.

(4. Of the different kinds of Narrative, and why they

are universally read.

Hawkesworth.

5. Remark on Dreaming. Various Transmigrations

related by a Flea.

Hawkesworth.

6. Project for an Auction of Manuscripts, by Timothy

Spinhrain, Author.

Bathurst.

7. Distress encouraged to hope: the History of Melissa.

Hawkesworth.

8. The History of Melissa concluded. Hawkesworth.

9. Impropriety of Signs.

Bathurst.

10, Happiness and Misery, how far the necessary Effects

of Virtue and Vice.

Huwkesworth.

11. An Allegorical Letter from To.Day. Huwkesworth.

12. The Influence of Infidelity upon Moral Conduct:

Story of Opsinous.

Hawkesworth.

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