The humourist: being essays upon several subjects, viz. News writers. Enthusiasm. The Spleen. Country Entertainment. Love. The History of Miss Manage. Ambition and Pride. Idleness. Fickleness of human Nature. Prejudice. Witchcraft. Ghosts and Apparitions. The Weather. Female Disguises. The Art of modern Conversation. The Use of Speech. The Punishment of staying at Home on Sunday, &c. Criticism. Art of Begging. Anger. Avarice. Death. Grief. Keeping the Ten Commandments. Travel misapply'd. Flattery. The Abuse of Words. Credulity. Eating. The Love of Power. The Expedients to get rid of Time. Retirement. The story of Will. Hacket the enthusiast. With a dedication to the man in the moon.
- Gordon, Thomas, -1750.
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- M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for D. Browne, W. Mears and F. Clay without Temple-Bar, Tho. Woodward at the Half-Moon against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, and H. Meer in the Ula-Bally, M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]
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v.1 (xxx,[6],240,[12]p.) ; 120.
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Edition
The third edition.
References note
ESTC T98598
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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.