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Dropfy, broom tea, an infallible remedy for

Droll fcenes at bookfellers thops

Diffufing through the world immenfe number of books,

gives our hero great pleasure

Epiftle (poetical) to Mr. Lackington on his Memoirs
Epigram, by our hero, on a methodist preacher
Education, our author regrets the want of

Enlightening the minds of the lower orders, makes them

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Epicure, a term wrong applied, pleafures, &c.

Expences of our hero proportioned to his income
Envious obfervations made on our author's expences
Edinburgh, North British hofpitality, &c.

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predictions

Preachers

Freethinkers read by our hero

Farmers and husbandmen now read

Enthufiafm, its nature

Father of the author dies unregretted by his children
Fanatics in every age found their account in dreadful

Fortune-teller foretold a perfon's death

Four bundred thousand pounds a year collected by Mr. Wesley's

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Four old people and four children fupported by our hero 448 Father and mother of our author's first wife, unexpectedly

difcovered; a dreadful scene

Fanaticifm worse than atheism

Fanatics in Poland killed their own children

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Goddy-mighty's little mutton

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Good confequences to the public of felling books cheap 449 Gentlemen and petty gentry act differently

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Gregory, Dr. a remarkable quotation from, on ladies

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Huntington procures by prayer a pair of breeches, fhoulder

of mutton, and fish &c.

Hill, an extraordinary quotation from

Hints to the authors of the Encyclopædia Britannica and

Biographia Britannica

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Hume, on female devotion and gallantry

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Humorous verfes on methodist preachers
Hill, Dr. earned by his pen in one year 1500l
Juvenile exploits of the author

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Invalids, abfurd practice of, at watering places
Johnfon, Dr. tea table anecdote of

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and the Lord Provost, anecdote of

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and a lady, anecdote of

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and David Hume, anecdote of

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and a waterman, anecdote of

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much prejudiced against the Scotch

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Knowland's child returns to life after it had been in the

Kingfwood fchool, large fums collected for, never

Knowledge of books, how acquired by the author.
Knowledge of the world, how attained by the author
Lavater, a quotation from, on women

Love-feafts, account of

Lackington can afford to give more for libraries than thofe that fell dear

Lady killed, fcreaming fet the horses going

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Ladies born deaf and dumb dance to mufic, &c.
Lackington fells one hundred thousand volumes a year

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Mary Hubbard's two old fmocks

Mother of the authors very extraordinary conduct

Methodists ruin the peace of mind of many innocent

Methodistical converfion a dreadful state

people

Methodists are unhappy

their prophecy of the world being at an end

on a certain day

are alarmed by a comet's tail

their treatment of our hero on his leaving their fociety

Methodist preachers, their number

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Merton,

Merton, our hero partly refides there

Norton's, Mrs. deed of gift to Reilly fet afide

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Nurfes robbed our author, and neglected him while his wife

lay dead, and himself nearly fo

Novels and romances read by our hero

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New mode of valuing and purchafing libraries, by which

the feller is fure to have the full value

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Ned Drugget's character fuits our hero

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Objection of fome in felling to the author anfwered

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Parnaffian bullies

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Pie-Merchant

Preachers, remarks on dull inanimate ones

Prayer Meetings of Methodists defcribed

Pawnbrokers fell books and other articles not pawned

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Prolific Methodists at Wellington and near Oxford
Pious dealer in fheep's heads, tripe, &c.

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Pious common-councilman's advertisement

Preachers, Wesley's, many very ignorant, often liked

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Publishers often hinder the fale of books when the copy

right remains the author's

Purchases, very large ones made by the author

Profits, annual, of our author

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Poor relations, the reason why the author does not decline

bufinefs

Proofs that his cheap mode of felling has not been inju

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Swedenborgians increafing faft; their wonderful difco

veries

Sunday-fchools promote the fale of books

Small profits and industry the real caufes of the author's

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profperity

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Scarcity of valuable books in various parts of Great Britain; London the grand emporium

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Symmon's Barrow, near Wellington, brought by the

Devil, in his leathern apron

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Stonehenge vifited by our hero

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Salisbury, a young woman there fold herself to the Devil, an odd ftory

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Swift's very curious verfes, or his dream

Selden, a quotation from him on bookfellers

Terrible inftance of a real guilty conscience, attended with
Juicide

Taylor (a) trips to his fhirt, and takes off his wig to

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preach

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Theatrical entertainments much attended by our hero
Tinley, Mr. an extraordinary character

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Travels of our hero in the north

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Travels of our hero to the west of England, in 1791

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Turton, Mifs Dorcas, her family character, is married to our hero

Thanksgiving note for being made perfect

Turpin (John) a Methodist preacher, tried at Exeter, and found guilty of ftealing a horfe, fent to Botany Bay

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Trifling circumftances produce great events

Tradefmen, remarks on their getting fortunes, country

feats, yet are unable to fupport existence

Tickets of admiffion to claffes, bands, &c.
Wiredrawer fold when drunk to L———m, as a dead subject
Watch nights, account of

Whitefield advised his people to attend Shuter's benefit
a very droll ftory of

Women, when converted, refufe to fleep with their huf

bands

Woman deprived of her fenfes by a Methodist, and her

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fervant killed by fafting

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character by an old member, an epicure, a deift 338

Wefley's

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Wesley's extraordinary letter to a friend

amorous letter to a young lady

Woman vifited her husband's tomb every day for two years, expecting him to rife

Women, panegyric on; more handsome women in Scot

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land among the higher classes than elsewhere 490 Women's extraordinary delicate mode of washing linen in

Scotland

Woolftonecraft, Mifs, a quotation from

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Women, the reason why they are defpifed in eaftern

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Why tradefmen on the continent are all rafcals

bookfeller's fhop

Xeno found confolation, and turned Philofopher, at a

Young's Night Thoughts preferred to a Christmas dinner 213 v Young lady converted and debauched by a Methodist

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