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Buncle's Memoirs enlarges our hero's mind
Bookseller has his hair dressed on Saturday, and sleeps

all night in his elbow chair

Biggs, John, a perfect man; his curious hand-bill..
Bakers threatened with damnation for baking meat on
Sundays, a story...
Booksellers destroy large numbers of books, to sell some
dear

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Books preserved by our hero, and sold cheap
Booksellers often prevent the sale of books sold by

authors

Booksellers' liberality to authors, instances of .

Bargain hunters, learned dissertation on

Bentley eats asses' flesh for conscience sake....

Books, sale of, extremely increased of late

years.

Bookseller's shop an excellent school for knowledge
Book-clubs promote the sale of books

Bank notes said to be found by our author in an old
book
Brank, a remedy for scolds, described (with wood cut)
Barrows, camps, fortifications, &c.

Buchanites, a curious sect of fanatics near Dumfries ..
Buchan (Lady) thought herself the Virgin Mary, &c.
Blair's Sermons have a greater sale than either Sher-
lock's or White's

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Benger, Elizabeth, a very extraordinary instance of fe-
male abilities

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Books afford real and lasting pleasures to rich and poor 265
Blackbird's nest found in a skull

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Children, a doubt if they should not be taught to despise
unnatural fathers

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Curious library of the author and his friend at Bristol

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Chaplain of the author

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Cowley's verses on envy

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Chiswell street, our hero opens a shop there

Criminals, bad practice of Methodists towards them,

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under sentence of death

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hero resolves not to give any

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Classics, translation of, read by our hero..

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Chariot set up by the author, with remarks on it..

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Crow's nest, remarkable one at Newcastle

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Children educated as Methodists, never remain such

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Cat longs for a fowl, and marks her kitten with wings 134
Circulating libraries increase the sale of books.....
Dunton, John, remarks on his life

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Death of the author's master hastened by his sons turn-

ing Methodists

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Droll scenes at booksellers' shops

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Diffusing through the world immense number of books,

gives our hero great pleasure .

Epistle (poetical) to Mr Lackington on his Memoirs
Epigram, by our hero, on a Methodist preacher
Education, our author regrets the want of

Enlightening the minds of the lower orders makes them
happier

Expenses of our hero proportioned to his income
Envious observations made on our author's expenses
Edinburgh, North British hospitality, &c.
Epicure, a term wrong applied, pleasures, &c...

Enthusiasm, its nature

Father of the author dies unregretted by his children 34
Fanatics in every age found their account in dreadful

predictions

Fortune-teller foretold a person's death

Four hundred thousand pounds a-year collected by Mr
Wesley's preachers..

Freethinkers read by our hero

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Farmers and husbandmen now read....

PACE

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Four old people and four children supported by our hero 262
Father and mother of our author's first wife, unex-

pectedly discovered; a dreadful scene

Fanaticism worse than atheism....

Fanatics in Poland killed their own children

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"Goddy-mighty's little mutton"

Good consciences to the public of selling books cheap 263
Gentlemen and petty gentry act differently

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G- Mrs, leaves her husband and children to follow

Wesley

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Great men have foibles, instances of..

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Gregory, Dr, a remarkable quotation from, on ladies

having learning.

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Germany, seven thousand living authors there.

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Ghost that loved poultry

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Haunted houses, stories of..

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Hospital haunted in London

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Horrid spectre appears

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Higley's ghost

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Hypocrites among the Methodists

Biographia Britannica

Huntingdon procures by prayer a pair of breeches, shoul-

der of mutton, and fish, &c.

Hill, an extraordinary quotation from

Hints to the authors of the Encyclopedia Britannica and

Hume, on female devotion and gallantry

Humorous verses on Methodist preachers..

Hill, Dr, earned by his pen in one year 15007.
Introduction

Invalids, absurd practice of, at watering places
Johnson, Dr, tea-table anecdote of

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Knowlan's child returns to life after it had been in the

Kingsbridge, our hero's life there

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Kingswood school, large sums collected for, never ap-

plied to that use.

Knowledge of books, how acquired by the author

Lavater, a quotation from, on women

Love feasts, account of

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Lackington can afford to give more for libraries than

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those that sell dear....

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Lady killed, screaming set the horses going
Ladies allowed to scream on certain terms

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Ladies born deaf and dumb dance to music, &c.

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Lackington sells one hundred thousand volumes a-year 264

Lackington's epitaph on himself

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Milk woman drove mad by Methodists.

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Moorfields qualifications for preachers.

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Manuscripts, remarks on purchasing them

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Miserable lives and untimely end of some opulent

tradesmen

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Mambury amphitheatre..

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people..

Mary Hubbard's two old smocks

Mother of the author, her very extraordinary conduct..

Methodists ruin the peace of mind of many innocent

Methodistical conversion a dreadful state.

Methodists are unhappy...

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Norton's, Mrs, deed of gift to Reilly set aside..

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New mode of valuing and purchasing libraries, by which

the seller is sure to have the full value

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Ned Drugget's character suits our hero
Objection of some in selling to the author answered

Pie-merchant

Preachers, remarks on dull inanimate ones

Prayer-meetings of Methodists described...

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Pawnbrokers sell books and other articles not pawned.. 134
Prolific Methodists at Wellington and near Oxford.... 145
Pious dealer in sheeps' heads, tripe, &c.

Pious common-councilman's advertisement

Preachers, Wesley's, many very ignorant, often liked

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the better for being so

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Play-house set on fire by a preacher.

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Partnership commenced with Mr D.

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Partnership dissolved

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Publishers often hinder the sale of books when the copy-

right remains the author's

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Purchases, very large ones, made by the author

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Profits, annual, of our author

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Poor relations, the reason why the author does not de-
cline business.

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Proofs that his cheap mode of selling has not been in-
jurious, but beneficial, to booksellers

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