The humourist. Essays upon several subjects: viz. News-Writers. Enthusiasm. Spleen. Country Entertainment. Love. Ambition and Pride. Idleness. Prejudice. Witchcraft. Ghosts, &c. Weather. Female Disguises. Art of modern Conversation. Use of Speech. Criticism. Art of Begging. Anger. Avarice. Death. Grief. Keeping the Ten Commandments. Travel misapply'd. Flattery. Abuse of Words. Credulity. Eating. Love of Power. Expedients to get rid of Time. Retirement. By Thomas Gordon, Esq;

  • Gordon, Thomas, -1750.
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[1730?]
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London : printed for Daniel Browne, at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar, [1730?]

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2v. ; 120.

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The fourth edition.

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ESTC T128366

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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