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HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
EDINBURGH:
Printed by ANDREW SHORTREDE, Thistle Lane.
1
CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOURTH.
AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE OF POLITE
LEARNING.
CHAPTER
PAGE
INTRODUCTION,
3
1. The Causes which contribute to the Decline of Learning,
4
2. A View of the Obscure Ages,
11
3. On the present state of Polite Learning in Italy,
14
4. Of Polite Learning in Germany,
16
5. Of Polite Learning in Holland, and some other countries of
Europe,
19
6. Of Polite Learning in France,
23
7. Of Learning in Great Britain,
29
8. Of rewarding Genius in England,
30
9. Of the marks of Literary Decay in France and England,
38
10. Of the Stage,
43
11. On Universities,
46
12. The Conclusion,
51
THE BEE.
No. II. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1759.
On Dress,
Some Particulars relative to Charles XII.
Happiness, in a great measure, dependent on constitution,
On our Theatres,
No. III. - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1759.
73
77
81
84
A word or two on the late Farce called "High Life Below
Stairs,"
Upon Unfortunate Merit,
No. VI. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1759.
On Education,
On the Instability of Worldly Grandeur,
Some Account of the Academies of Italy,
No. VII. - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1759.
116
124
130
131
135
144
147
Of Eloquence,
150
Custom and Laws compared,
157
Of the Pride and Luxury of the Middling Class of People,
160
Sabinus and Olinda,
161
The Sentiments of a Frenchman on the Temper of the English, 164
The Preface to Dr Brookes's system of Natural History,
261
Introduction to a new History of the World,
267
The Preface to the Roman History,
272
The Preface to the History of England,
276
The Preface to a History of the Earth and Animated Nature,
280
Preface to the Beauties of English Poetry,
287
Preface to a collection of Poems, for Young Ladies,
297
Introduction to a Survey of Experimental Philosophy,
300
APPENDIX.
Controversy regarding the originality of the ballad of the Hermit,
Epitaph on Edward Purdon,
Locality of Auburn,
Goldsmith's quarrel with Evans the Bookseller,
Dr Johnson's Epitaph on Dr Goldsmith,
Celebration of Goldsmith's Birth-Day,
309
315
316
320
321
323