THE

LOUNGE R.

A

PERIODICAL PAPER,

PUBLISHED AT EDINBURGH IN THE YEARS

1785 and 1786.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

THE THIRD EDITION,

LONDON:

Printed for A. STRAHAN; and T. CADELL, in the Strand,
and W. CREECH, at Edinburgh.

MDCC LXXXVII.

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CONTENT S.

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1. Introduction. Character of the Author,
indolent with feeling, and vacant with
obfervation,

2. Importance of the Duty of Manners,
3. The vanity of fkill in what we do not
know, and the pedantry of valuing our-
felves on thofe branches of knowledge
which we poffefs,

4. The Author becomes acquainted with Col.
Cauftic, a fine gentleman of the last
age, fomewhat fevere in his remarks on
the prefent,

5. On the writing of History. Ancient hiftory compared with modern,

6. The Author attends Col. Caufic to a play. Remarks of the Colonel on the entertain

ment and the audience,

7. The regrets of him who has thrown away domeftic happiness in frivolous diffipation; in a letter from LUCILIUS,

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8. M. CAREFUL on female Loungers.

Propofal of an hofpital for the idle,

9. Ill effects of disgust with the world in

minds of fenfibility, in a history of

himfelf by HORTENSIUS,

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10. On party dress, by NEUTER.

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58

66

Cen-

fure of political violence, especially in

the Ladies,

11. Life of SIR THOMAS LOUNGER, busy

in profpect, and doing nothing,

12. Trifling circumftances often form the cri-
terion of character. Judgment of
a company drawn from the different
appearance of their Hats,

13. The confequences of a town-education and

fociety to the family of a country-gen-

tleman; in a letter from AGRESTIS, 109

14. Narrative of a modern dinner in com-

pany with Col. Cauftic,

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15. Defcription of a new variety of the hu-

man race, the Phufalophagos, or

Toad-eater,

16. Defects of modern female education in

teaching the duties of a wife, exempli-

fied in the narrative of HORATIUS,

17. Influence of the neighbourhood of a rich

Afiatic, in a
in a letter from JOHN

HOMESPUN,

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127

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18. Injustice of the world in forming an

eftimate of character and conduct.

Contraft of thofe of Cleora and Au-

relia,

19. Comparison of ancient with modern times,

much to the advantage of the latter, by

PAUL PASQUIN,

20. On Novel-writing,

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152

159

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168

21. Danger to young ladies of being intro-

duced into a fociety and style of man-

ners above their natural fituation in

life; in a letter from A. G.

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22. Account of a little speaking Automaton,

the Poupée parlante, and of fome in-

cidents which happened during the

Author's vifit to her,

176

184

23. Vindication of that fort of preference

which women are fuppofed to fhew to

men of inferior talents,
192

24. Letter from JEREMIAH DY-SOON, a

valetudinariar, giving an account of

the grievances he fuffers from his wife, 199

25. Critical examination of the tragedy of

the Fair Penitent. Some remarks on

Mrs. Siddons's performance of the

character of Califta,

26. Infignificance and unhappiness of a cer-

tain fpecies of Bachelor-Lounger,

208

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