The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volume 3

Thomas Tegg, 1835

The description of London continued	3

LETTER	7

The licentiousness of the English with regard to women	9

The venders of quack medicines and nostrums ridiculed	24

The proceedings of the club of authors	30

An account of Westminster Abbey	34

A continuation of his correspondence The beautiful captive	36

Against cruelty to animals A story from the Zendevest	40

The philosophers son is again separated from his beautiful companion	267

The father consoles him upon this occasion	269

The condolence and congratulation upon the death of the late king ridiculed English mourning described	270

Almost every subject of literature has been already exhausted	273

A description of the Courts of Justice in Westminsterhall	275

A visit from the little beauThe indulgence with which the fair sex are treated in several parts of Asia	278

A life of independence praised	282

The passion for gaming among ladies ridiculed	285

The story of the Chinese matron	55

Some account of the republic of letters in England	100

An apostrophe on the supposed death of Voltaire	123

The ardour of the people of London in running after sights	129

Misery best relieved by dissipation	137

An attempt to define what is meant by English liberty	144

The impossibility of distinguishing men in England by their	150

His character continued with that of his wife his house	159

The Chinese philosophers son escapes with the beautiful captive	170

Proper lessons to a youth entering the world with fables	177

The folly of attempting to learn wisdom by being recluse	194

Fortune proved not to be blindThe story of the avaricious	203

The marriage act censured	209

The description of a little great man	215

The behaviour of a shopkeeper and his journeyman	224

The evil tendency of increasing penal laws or enforcing even	230

Some cautions on life taken from a modern philosopher of China	239

The ladies advised to get husbands A story to this purpose	251

The English subject to the spleen	257

LETTER PAGE 92 The manner in which some philosophers make artificial misery	263

The fondness of some to admire the writings of lords c	265

The Chinese philosopher begins to think of quitting England	286

The arts some make use of to appear learned	287

The intended coronation described	290

Funeral elegies written upon the great ridiculed A specimen of one	293

The English too fond of believing every report without exami nation A story of an incendiary to this purpose	295

The utility and entertainment which might result from a journey into the East	297

The Chinese philosopher attempts to find out famous men	300

Some projects for introducing Asiatic employments into the courts of England	303

On the different sects in England particularly Methodism	306

An election described	311

Against the Marriage Act A Fable	315

On the danger of having too high an opinion of human nature	318

Whether love be a natural or a fictitious passion	321

A City Nightpiece	324

On the meanness of the Dutch at the Court of Japan	325

On the distresses of the poor exemplified in the life of a private sentinel	328

On the absurdity of some late English titles	332

The irresolution of the English accounted for	334

The manner of travellers in their usual relations ridiculed	336

The Conclusion	339

Title	The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volume 3 The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Oliver Goldsmith
Author	Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher	Thomas Tegg, 1835
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	22 Oct 2008

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