THE

BRITISH ESSAYISTS ;

WITH

PREFACES,

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL,

BY

ALEXANDER CHALMERS, F. S. A.

saaraisiaran

VOL. XXIII.

LONDON:
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ADVENTURER.

N° 1 - 41.

-Tentanda via est ; quâ me quoque possim Tollere bumo, victorque viram volitare per ora.

Virg.

On vent'rous wing in quest of praise I go,
And leave the gazing multitude below,

CONTENTS

VOL. XXIII.

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No HISTORICAL and Biographical

Preface.

1. Courage, why honoured as a

virtue." Adventurer charac-

terized, and his Achieve-

ments projected

HAWKESWORTH
2. Intellectual and Corporal La-

bour compared

3. Project for a new Pantomime

Entertainment

BATHURST

4. Of the different kinds of Nar.

rative, and why they are

universally read

HAWKESWORTH

5. Remark on Dreaming. Va-

rious Transmigrations re-

lated by à Flea

6. Project for an Auction of

Manuscripts, bý Timothị

Spinbrain, Author

BATHURST
7. Distress encouraged to hope :

the History of Melissa HAWKESWORTH

8. The History of Melissa con-

cluded

9. Impropriety of Signs

BATHURST