TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Fame on a small scale . . .2
1755.
A prisoner in the bed-ticking . 3'
Sensibility not benevolence . . &
^t. 27.
Buclid vtrtiu Horace . . .3'



Swift's fialure at college . . 3'

Gray's dislike of mathematics . 3:
Mr. Theaker Wildert brutality . 32

A riot and its punishment . . '<K

A dancing party and its result . &
174& Flight from college and return . &

Jit. 20. Day-dreams . - - .35

Centre of gravity disturbed, and
Oliver turned down . . . 51
1755.
1749. (27th Feb.) B. A ..... 36

JBt 21. Signature in the College Library. 315

CHAPTER III.

1749-1752.

THBEE TEAKS OF IDLEKESS.

1749. Oliver at his mother's in Bally-

J3t2I. mahon ..... 37

Family changes . . . . 37

Errands ran by Master Noll . 38

The village inn . . . .38

Biver walks and rustic games - . 39
Besources of Irish society . . 40
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1750. Weakness of temperament and

JEt, 22. strength of genius . . .41

Making the most of idleness . . 42

The habit of cheerfulness . . 42
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1751. Application to the Bishop . . 43
JEt. 23. Bejected as a clergyman . . 43
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Becomes a tutor . ... 44
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Card-playing vtrsm Teaching . 44
Vagabond without the pen, Gen-
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tleman with it . . . . 45
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The adventure of Fiddleback . 46
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1752 Enters as a lawyer, and loses the
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Mb, 24. entrance fee . - . . . . 47
1756. I
Family quarrels and reconcilia-
Mt.28. I


Flute and harpsichord . . . 47

CHAPTER IV.

1752-1755.
PEC!
PBEPA.MNG FOR A MEDICAL DEGKEE.
1756. (
m 28. I
1752, Dean Goldsmith advises Oliver . 48
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Jit 24. Starts for Edinburgh, medical

student ..... 48
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Lodging-house experiences . . 49
A challenge to the theatre . . 49
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Fellow-students . . . . 50
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The table in a roar . . .50
1757. \
Helps himself by teaching . . 51
Mi. 29. S
Letters to Bryanton and Uncle
£
Contarine . . . . . 51

1753. A trip to the Highlands . .52
Jft. 25. Money wasted, Burke and Gold-
S
A
smith, .... . 59
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Ghosts of tailors' bills . . .53

" Silver loops and garment blue" 53
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1754. Unpublished leaf of an Edinburgh
jKt.26. ledger .... 54
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Grateful letters , . . .55
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The "Best of men " to Oliver ... 55
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Land rats, and water rats . .55
A
Jacobite adventure at Newcastle . 56
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Arrived at Leyden . . , . 56
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, Three specimens of womankind . 56

1755. Pursuits at Leydeii.
07 Teaching and gambling
67
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68
58
r Uncle Contarine
(February) Leaves Leyden
CHAPTER V.
1755-1756.
TRAVELS.
Death and example of Baron do
Holberg . • • •
Scheme to travel on foot _.
Dining in convents, sleeping m
barns, and playing the flute .
The Storyteller in the European
Magazi7ie.....
The Medical Degree . . .
Louvain, Flanders, and Holland .
Musical mendicancy . . •
In Paris . • •
A thrifty young pupil . . .
A letter not genuine . . .
Rouelle's lectures and Olatron's
acting . . • • • •
Sees into the future of Franco .
Johnson does not sec into it
Voltaire's exile from Paris . .
Visit to Voltaire in Geneva .
The English attacked and do-
•feiided . •.....
Lecture rooms of Germany .
In Switzerland . . .
Portions oftlio Traveller •written .
Letters existing and. uudisoovurod
Character of tlio Swiss
Editions of the Traveller . , .
Mental discipline in. travel .
In Piedmont.....
Italian cities.....
1756. Disputing for a livelihood . .
OHAPTEB VI.
- 1756-1757.
PEOKHAM SCHOOL AND QBUB-STOfflBT,
medy in a baru . . . 70
Employed at a country apotlio-
car/s . . . . .77
In London as Usher . . . 77
Penalties of a feigned name . . 77
Among the 'beggars iuAxoLana. 78
•Apothecary's journeyman . . 78
Visit from an old fellow studout . 70
JEt. 29. Sets up as Poor Physician . . 70
Becomes press-corrootor to Mr.
Bichardson ..... 80
Sees Young the poet . .80
Attempts a tragedy . , , 81
Proposes to decipher the "Written
Mountains ..... 81
Assistant at the Poclcham Aca-
demy ...... 82
Doctor Miner's tenth daughter . 82
Unpublished Anecdotes . , 88
Miss Milner's recollections . . 8B
A good-natured practical, joko . 84
Cure for a hopeless passion . 8fi
The .Usher challenges the Foot-
boy ..... ' , 8H