BRITISH ESSAYISTS; WITH PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL, BY THE REV. LIONEL THOMAS BERGUER, LATE OF ST. MARY HALL, OXON: FELLOW EXTRAORDINARY OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. IN FORTY-FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. XX. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. AND J. ALLMAN, PRINCES STREET, HANOVER SQUARE: W. Baynes and Son, Paternoster Row; A. B. Dulau and Co. Soho Square; W. Clarke, New Bond Street; R. Jennings, Poultry; J. Hearne, Strand; R. Triphook, Old Bond Street; Westley and Parrish, Strand; W. Wright, Fleet Street; C. Smith, Strand: H. Mozley, Derby: W. Grapel, and Robinson and Sons, Liverpool: Bell and Bradfute, J. Anderson, jun. and H. S. Baynes and Co. Edinburgh: M. Keene, and J. Cumming, Dublin. 54. A DEATH-BED the true School of Wisdom-the Effects of Death upon the Survivors Johnson. 56. The Necessity of Complaisance-the Rambler's Grief for offending his Correspondents Johnson. 57. Sententious Rules of Frugality 5 59. An Account of Suspirius the human Screech.owl' 69. The Miseries and Prejudices of Old Age 70. Different Men Virtuous in different Degrees- 77. The learned seldom despised but when they 78. The power of Novelty-Mortality too familiar 81. The great Rule of Action-Debts of Justice to be distinguished from Debts of Charity Johnson. 82. The Virtuoso's Account of his Rarities 83. The Virtuoso's Curiosity justified 84. A young Lady's Impatience of Control 85. The Mischiefs of total Idleness 86. The danger of succeeding a great Author: an introduction to a Criticism on Milton's Versification |