COSMOPOLITE,

A PERIODICAL PAPER,

CONSISTING OF

FAMILIAR ESSAYS

ON MEN, MANNERS, AND LITERATURE.

"

QUI MORES HOMINUM MULTORUM VIDIT ET URBES."--Hor.

Published by J. M. RICHARDSON, 23, Cornhill; S. HIGHLEY, 24, Fleet
Street; SHERWOOD, NEELEY & JONES, Paternoster Row; and by
T. HOOKHAM, Jun. and E. T. HOOKHAM, Old Bond Street.

ΤΟ

JAMES BINDLEY, ESQ.

THIS VOLUME IS

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

AS A TOKEN OF ESTEEM,

VENERATION, AND GRATITUDE,

BY

THE COSMOPOLITE.

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Introductory Paper.-Anxieties of an Author.-Some Ac-

count of Mr. Abel Cosmo.

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Errors allied to goodness. Their dangerous tendency, and

the difficulty of distinguishing them.

Reading, not inconsistent with the Study of Man. ..

Introduction to the Ladies.-Love and Courtship. Letter

from Priscilla Prudence.

On the neglect of Religious Worship.-Tom Echo.-Supine-

ness of our Clergy.-Letter from Dick Dapper.

National Improvement.

Freedom.....

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Its connexion with National

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Errors in Female Education. Their pernicious effects.
Remarks on the following subject :-

Quibus nihil opus est in ipsis ad bene beateque vivendum, iis

omnis gravis est ætas; qui autem omnia bona a se ipsi petunt,

iis nihil potest malum videri, quod naturæ necessitas afferat.

On Self-praise ;-Not necessary for the developement of

Genius. The sanction of great names no palliation to

its absurdity.

National Improvement.-Its progress and connexion with

national freedom traced down to the present period.

Nasutus on Noses.

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On the remote causes of things.-Exemplified by an En-

quiry into the Origin of Paradise Lost....

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On Card-playing.-Its selfishness and silliness...

93

The study of modern languages (and particularly the

German) recommended.

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101

Remarks on the Poems of Walter Scott (by a Correspon lent).116

On the force of example.-Its had effects practically illus-

trated by the History of Ned Comfit, a city blood; its

jufluence best counteracted by the exercise of reason..... 122