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Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

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Number of Chapters: 69

Length: 13 hours and 12 minutes

Language: English

This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics. - Summary by Carolin

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Bibliographical Introduction, part 1 (Barbara Baker)
Biographical Introduction, part 2 (Barbara Baker)
The Necessity and Danger of Looking into Futurity. Writers Naturally Sanguine. Their Hopes Liable to Disappointment (Barbara Baker)
An Allegory on Criticism (Barbara Baker)
The Modern Form of Romances Preferable to the Ancient. The Necessity of Characters Morally Good (Barbara Baker)
The Folly of Anger. The Misery of a Peevish Old Age (Barbara Baker)
The Difference Between an Author's Writings and his Conversation (Barbara Baker)
The Dangers and Miseries of Literary Eminence (Barbara Baker)
The Anxieties of Literature not Less than Those of Publick Stations. The Inequality of Authors' Writings (Barbara Baker)
An Allegory on Wit and Learning (Barbara Baker)
The Contrariety of Criticism. The Vanity of Objection. An Author Obliged to Depend upon his own Judgment (Bill Boerst)
The Various Arts of Self-Delusion (Availle)
The Difficulty of Giving Advice Without Offending (Availle)
The Proper Means of Regulating Sorrow (Bill Boerst)
A Virtuous Old Age Always Reverenced (Bill Boerst)
The Desire of Wealth Moderated by Philosophy (Bill Boerst)
The Dignity and Usefulness of Biography (Pamela Nagami)
Inconstancy Always a Weakness (Pamela Nagami)
The Requisites to True Friendship (Availle)
The Garden of Hope - A Dream (Denise Nordell)
Every Man Chiefly Happy or Miserable at Home. The Opinions of Servants not to be Despised (Jesse Zuba)
The Necessity of Good Humor (Availle)
The Learned Seldom Despised but when they Deserve Contempt (Pamela Nagami)
The Reasons Why Advice is Generally Ineffectual (Availle)
The Luxury of Vain Imagination (Roohi)
The Voyage of Life (Roohi)
Life Sufficient to All Purposes if well Employed (Barbara Baker)
The Advantages of Living in a Garret (Barbara Baker)
Diligence too Soon Relaxed. Necessity of Perseverance (Barbara Baker)
The Necessity of Literary Courage (Barbara Baker)
The Criterions of Plagiarism (Barbara Baker)
The Usefulness of Advice. The Danger of Habits. The Necessity of Reviewing Life (Availle)
The Revelations of a Garret (Bill Boerst)
Labour Necessary to Excellence (Bill Boerst)
Directions to Authors Attacked by Criticks. The Various Degrees of Critical Perspicacity (Jesse Zuba)
Many Advantages not to be Enjoyed Together (Pamela Nagami)
The Prohibition of Revenge Justifiable by Reason. The Meanness of Regulating our Conduct by the Opinions of Men (Pamela Nagami)
Human Opinions Suitable. The Hopes of Youth Fallacious (Jesse Zuba)
The Importance of Punctuality (Availle)
The Art of Living at the Cost of Others (Jesse Zuba)
The Folly of Continuing too Long upon the Stage (Jesse Zuba)
The Character of a Liar (Jesse Zuba)
The Faults of Books Sometimes Imputable to the Reader (Pamela Nagami)
To Read, Write, and Conserve in Due Proportions the Business of a Man of Letters (Barbara Baker)
Unjust Charges of Plagiarism (Pamela Nagami)
Mercator Complains that he can Find no Happiness in Rural Life (Michele Fry)
That kind of Life most Happy which Affords us most Opportunities of Gaining our own Esteem (Barbara Baker)
Our Present State one of Danger and Infelicity (J. McDougall)
On the Duty of Self-Examination (Pamela Nagami)
The Happiness and Vexation of Authors (Jesse Zuba)
The Idler's Character (Anders V Lankford)
Invitation to Correspondents (Anders V Lankford)
Robbery of Time (Anders V Lankford)
Uncertainty of Friendship (Pamela Nagami)
Corruptions of News-Writers (Pamela Nagami)
Disguises of Idleness. Sober's Character (Pamela Nagami)
The Terrifick Diction (Pamela Nagami)
On the Death of a Friend (Pamela Nagami)
Monitions on the Flight of Time (Philippa)
Deborah Ginger's Account of City Wits (Philippa)
Minim the Critick I. (Jesse Zuba)
Minim the Critick II. (Jesse Zuba)
Dick Shifter's Rural Excursion (Anders V Lankford)
Steady, Snug, Startle, Solid, and Misty (Anders V Lankford)
Biography, How Best Performed (Anders V Lankford)
Books Multiplied by Useless Compilations (Roohi)
What Have Ye Done? (Roohi)
Omar's Plan of Life (Roohi)
The Itch of Writing Universal (Barbara Baker)
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