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CONTENTS.
1. Who act upon the Principle--Divide et impera
2. Who never attack equal Enemies
3. Who look on while their Enemies are destroying each
4. Whose Interests are protected by the Passions of their
8. Who can do little Things greatly
9. The Count de Soissons
10. Who do the reverse to what they intend
11. Who speak Truth for ignoble Ends
12. Who preserve Friendship with both Parties
13. Lovers of Power
14. Conformers to the Taste of Others
15. Who never interfere with other Men's Concerns
16. Where Politeness is altered by the mention of Money
17. Who ask Advice, without telling all the Circumstances
18. Rienzi
21. Who prefer one Bird in the Hand to two in the Bush
22. Who never reward those they approve
23. Who are careless of Futurity
24. Who in Success wear new Faces
26. Who waste great Powers on subordinate Subjects
27. Who are true to the Word, but false to the Spirit
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28. Who believe their own Lies
29. Who break off in the Middle
30. Who undertake too much
31. Who think too much of the Past
32. Who are always concerning themselves about the
Future
38. Who sacrifice Great to Little
39. Who yield all Things to gain one Point
40. Who are slow to begin, and difficult to execute
42. Men of mere Plausibility
43. Who have Strength and no Power to communicate it
44. Who keep the best Gun till the last
48. Pope Alexander VI.; Borgia; and Louis XI.
49. Who advance their Interests by Promises
50. Who doubt Veracity
51. Lord Townsend and Lord Granville
52. Who act unwisely on a great Man's Lesson
53. Who cannot confine themselves to one Object
54. Who bear evil Accidents with Propriety
55. Who act for Years contrary to their own Opinions
56. The Patient
57. Who cut Webs of their own spinning
58. Who can adopt Words to Occasions
59. The obsequious and treacherous
60. Who split Straws
61. Who will not be led
62. Who let others dictate
63. Who take middle Courses
64. Who seldom return Bows
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65. Roundabout Questioners
66. Who stoop to conquer
67. Who are duped only in Appearance
68. Who conquer Arguments by not noticing them
69. Who affect Illness
70. Who appear well prepared when they are not so
71. Affecters of Ignorance
72. To whom Plots are necessary
73. Who can do Nothing without a Plot
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74. Who never trust
75. Who resemble the Minstrels of Illyria
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76. Who fight the Cause of their Enemies
77. Who do not know the Resources of their Adversaries
78. Who have wrong Opinions of their own Skill
79. Men, whose Deaths have been Subjects of great Joy
83. Who acknowledge the Superiority of their Rivals
84. Rivals
85. Who prevent Rivalship: who revenge Rivalship
86. Who conciliate their Rivals
87. Who fasten Motives on their Rivals they never dreamed
88. Rivals, who have met the same Fates
89. Who are in a constant state of Hesitation
90. Two Species of Cunning
91. Who take short Cuts
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95. Who believe they may do all Things that are innocent 115
96. Who give Men Employments for the Purpose of
getting rid of them
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97. Instances in which similar Weaknesses produce dif-
ferent Results
98. Who work slowly till Excellence grows into a Habit
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105. Men who may be compared to certain Fishes
106. Lovers and Haters of History
108. Who are ever ready to avail themselves of other Men's
Atrocities
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109. Who have obtained great Power in the Face of Craft
110. Honour among Thieves
120. Who exalt their Enemies into Importance
121. Whose Names are enough
122. Who, in ruining their Rivals, ruin themselves
123. Who worship their Enemies
124. Who leave Legacies to their Enemies
125. Who have no fixed Principles of Action
126. Who are in perpetual Motion
127. Who come to the Point at once
128. Who triumph for coming in at the Death
129. Who sacrifice great Interests to little ones
130. Who are Martyrs to their own Conceptions
131. Who trace to little Causes
133. Who attempt to hew Blocks with a Razor
134. The Marquis of Rockingham
135. Who act first and meditate afterwards
139. Who can perceive the consequences of an Argument,
143. Actors and Advisers
144. Who act contrary to their own Precepts
145. Three orders of Persons
146. Caius Gracchus
147. Characters which remind us of certain pictorial Sketches 192
148. With whom it is never the Time
149. Sketches from Shakspeare
150. Who turn their Horses' Heads the wrong Way
151. Who succeed in Projects deemed impossible
152. Who sink into Contempt after they have succeeded
153. Who do not act up to their Wishes when they can
154. Who resign the World
155. Who give Impulses
156. Where Delusions are useful
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157. On the Equality of Event to the Wise and the Foolish 203
158. The House of Savoy
159. Who neglect till they give over
160. Who know how to Escape
161. Who are pliable to Circumstances
162. Who know when to submit
163. Who know when to stop
164. Who escape what they wish
165. Who cannot be calculated upon till they have finished
168. Who receive Justice as a Favour; who receive Favours