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
.

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
1

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
I

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
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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
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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
67
67
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