No. 99. The pleasures of private friendship. The necessity of similar dispositions.
To be infected with the jargon of a particular profession, and to know only the language of a single rank of mortals, is indeed despicable.
Monthly Archives: February 1751
No. 98. The necessity of cultivating politeness.
Life passes in petty transactions; there very seldom emerges any occasion that can call forth great virtue or great abilities.
No. 97. Advice to unmarried ladies.
I have lived to see such a change in the manners of women.
No. 96. Truth, Falsehood, and Fiction; an allegory.
Truth is, indeed, not often welcome for its own sake; it is generally unpleasing, because contrary to our wishes and opposite to our practice.
No. 95. The history of Pertinax the sceptick.
There are many diseases both of the body and mind, which it is far easier to prevent than to cure.
No. 94. An inquiry how far Milton has accommodated the sound to the sense.
The general resemblance of the sound to the sense is to be found in every language which admits of poetry.
No. 93. The prejudices and caprices of criticism.
To convince any man against his will is hard, but to please him against his will is above the reach of human abilities.
No. 92. The accommodation of sound to the sense, often chimerical.
It has been long observed, that the idea of beauty is vague and undefined, different in different minds, and diversified by time or place.