THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD, OR LETTERS FROM A Chinese Philosopher, RESIDING IN LONDON, TO HIS FRIENDS IN THE EAST. BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH. VOL. II. PHILADELPHIA, PRINTED BY T. & G. PALMER, FOR J. CONRAD & CO. 30, CHESNUT-STREET, PHILADELPHIA; M. & J. CONRAD & Co. 138, MARKET-STREET, BALTIMORE; RAPIN, CONRAD, & CO. WASHINGTON CITY; SOMERVELL & CONRAD, PETERSBURG; AND BONSAL, CONRAD, & Co. NORFOLK. ........... 1804. MD CONTENTS THE SECOND VOLUME. PAGE LXIV. The great exchange happiness for show. Their LXV. The history of a philosophic cobbler LXVII. The folly of attempting to learn wisdom by being 3 LXXII. The marriage act censured LXXIII. Life endeared by age 43 LXXVI. The preference of grace to beauty, an allegory LXXVIII. The French ridiculed after their own manner 60 LXXX. The evil tendency of increasing penal laws, or en- forcing even those already in being with rigour LXXXIV. Anecdotes of several poets who lived and died in circumstances of wretchedness LXXXVII. The folly of the western parts of Europe, in XCV. The father consoles him upon this occasion XCVI. The condolence and congratulation upon the death |