THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS; WITH PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL, BY THE REV. LIONEL THOMAS BERGUER, LATE OF ST. MARY HALL, OXON: FELLOW EXTRAORDINARY OF THE IN FORTY-FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. V. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. AND J. ALLMAN, PRINCES STREET, HANOVER SQUARE: W. Baynes and Son, Paternoster Row; A. B. Dulau and Co. Soho Square; CONTENTS TO VOL. V. Steele. Steele. 211. Uses of Sunday-On Devotion 212. On Simplicity of Ornament-Letters on an Ass in the Lion's Skin-From a Virgin, &c. Steele. 213. On Dissimulation and Simulation-Tom True- man, a Hero in Domestic Life 214. On the Rigid and the Supple-Account of a Steele. Addison. Steele. 218. On the Names given by Gardeners to Flowers 219. Impertinence of professed Wits-Character of Tom Mercer-Letters and Petitions 220. Account of the Church Thermometer. Addison. Steele. Addison. Addison. 229. Remarks on the Author's Enemies-Fable of 230. Improprieties of Phrase-Affectation of Polite- Steele. Steele. Steele. 1 246. On a Censorious Disposition-Letters to De- Steele. 251. On Virtuous Independence-Where true Hap- Steele. Addison and Steele. 255. Letter from a Chaplain-Thoughts on the 257. Wax-work Representation of the Religions of 258. Letter on the Use of the Phrase North Briton: Addison and Steele. |