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Contents of Volume 1
CONTENTS.
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| Essay I.—On the Pleasure of Painting | 1 |
| Essay II.—The same Subject continued | 23 |
| Essay III.—On the Past and Future | 43 |
| Essay IV.—On Genius and Common Sense | 65 |
| Essay V.—The same Subject continued | 91 |
| Essay VI.—Character of Cobbett | 113 |
| Essay VII.—On People with one Idea | 135 |
| Essay VIII.—On the Ignorance of the Learned | 159 |
| Essay IX.—The Indian Jugglers | 179 |
| Essay X.—On Living to one’s-self | 209 |
| Essay XI.—On Thought and Action | 235 |
| Essay XII.—On Will-making | 265 |
| Essay XIII.—On certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses | 287 |
| Essay XIV.—The same Subject continued | 311 |
| Essay XV.—On Paradox and Common-place | 347 |
| Essay XVI.—On Vulgarity and Affectation | 373 |
Contents of Volume 2
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| Essay I.—On a Landscape of Nicholas Poussin | 1 |
| Essay II.—On Milton’s Sonnets | 17 |
| Essay III.—On going a Journey | 33 |
| Essay IV.—On Coffee-house Politicians | 55 |
| Essay V.—On the Aristocracy of Letters | 91 |
| Essay VI.—On Criticism | 115 |
| Essay VII.—On great and little Things | 145 |
| Essay VIII.—On familiar Style | 183 |
| Essay IX.—On Effeminacy of Character | 199 |
| Essay X.—Why distant Objects please | 217 |
| Essay XI.—On Corporate Bodies | 239 |
| Essay XII.—Whether Actors ought to sit in the Boxes | 261 |
| Essay XIII.—On the Disadvantages of intellectual Superiority | 279 |
| Essay XIV.—On Patronage and Puffing | 303 |
| Essay XV.—On the Knowledge of Character | 335 |
| Essay XVI.—On the Picturesque and Ideal | 369 |
| Essay XVII.—On the Fear of Death | 381 |
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