CONTENTS 71. No man believes that his own life will be short 72. The necessity of good humour 31 be distinguished from debts of charity 64 83. The virtuoso's curiosity justified 84. A young lady's impatience of controul 85. The mischiefs of total idleness 86. The danger of succeeding a great author: An introduction to a criticism on Milton's 87. The reasons why advice is generally ineffectual 98. The necessity of cultivating politeness 99. The pleasures of private friendship. The necessity of similar dispositions 122. A criticism on the English historians 123. The young trader turned gentleman 124. The lady's misery in a summer retirement 135. The folly of annual retreats into the country 136. The meanness and mischief of indiscriminate 137. The necessity of literary courage THE RAMBLER. NUMB. 71. TUESDAY, November 20, 1750. Vivere quod propero pauper, nec inutilis annis, True, sir, to live 1 haste, your pardon give, MART. F. LEWIS. MANY words and sentences are so frequently heard in the mouths of men, that a superficial observer is inclined to believe, that they must contain some primary principle, some great rule of action, which it is proper always to have present to the attention, and by which the use of every hour is to be adjusted. Yet, if we consider the conduct of those sententious philosophers, it will often be found, that they repeat these aphorisms, merely because they have somewhere heard them, because they have nothing else to say, or because they think veneration gained by such |