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.
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Bibliographical Introduction, part 1
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Biographical Introduction, part 2
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The Necessity and Danger of Looking into Futurity. Writers Naturally Sanguine. Their Hopes Liable to Disappointment
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An Allegory on Criticism
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The Modern Form of Romances Preferable to the Ancient. The Necessity of Characters Morally Good
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The Folly of Anger. The Misery of a Peevish Old Age
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The Difference Between an Author's Writings and his Conversation
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The Dangers and Miseries of Literary Eminence
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The Anxieties of Literature not Less than Those of Publick Stations. The Inequality of Authors' Writings
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An Allegory on Wit and Learning
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The Contrariety of Criticism. The Vanity of Objection. An Author Obliged to Depend upon his own Judgment
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The Various Arts of Self-Delusion
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The Difficulty of Giving Advice Without Offending
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The Proper Means of Regulating Sorrow
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A Virtuous Old Age Always Reverenced
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The Desire of Wealth Moderated by Philosophy
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The Dignity and Usefulness of Biography
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Inconstancy Always a Weakness
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The Requisites to True Friendship
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The Garden of Hope - A Dream
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Every Man Chiefly Happy or Miserable at Home. The Opinions of Servants not to be Despised
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The Necessity of Good Humor
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The Learned Seldom Despised but when they Deserve Contempt
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The Reasons Why Advice is Generally Ineffectual
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The Luxury of Vain Imagination
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The Voyage of Life
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Life Sufficient to All Purposes if well Employed
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The Advantages of Living in a Garret
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Diligence too Soon Relaxed. Necessity of Perseverance
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The Necessity of Literary Courage
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The Criterions of Plagiarism
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The Usefulness of Advice. The Danger of Habits. The Necessity of Reviewing Life
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The Revelations of a Garret
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Labour Necessary to Excellence
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Directions to Authors Attacked by Criticks. The Various Degrees of Critical Perspicacity
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Many Advantages not to be Enjoyed Together
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The Prohibition of Revenge Justifiable by Reason. The Meanness of Regulating our Conduct by the Opinions of Men
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Human Opinions Suitable. The Hopes of Youth Fallacious
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The Importance of Punctuality
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The Art of Living at the Cost of Others
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The Folly of Continuing too Long upon the Stage
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The Character of a Liar
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The Faults of Books Sometimes Imputable to the Reader
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To Read, Write, and Conserve in Due Proportions the Business of a Man of Letters
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Unjust Charges of Plagiarism
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Mercator Complains that he can Find no Happiness in Rural Life
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That kind of Life most Happy which Affords us most Opportunities of Gaining our own Esteem