THE

BRITISH ESSAYISTS.

-WITH

PREFACES,

BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL,

BY

JAMES FERGUSON, ESQ.

AUTHOR OF THE "NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY."

Second Edition.

IN FORTY VOLUMES.

XX.

ADVENTURER, VOL. I. -

LONDON:

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ALSO, J. CARFRAE, AND J. SUTHERLAND, EDINBURGH;
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1823.

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