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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1958

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NO.

CONTENTS.

VOL. 1.

1. COURAGE, why honoured as a Virtue. Adventurer

characterized, and his Achievements projected.

Hawkesworth.

2. Intellectual and corporal Labour compared.

Hawkesworth.

3. Project for a new Pantomime Entertainment.

Bathurst.

4. Of the different kinds of Narrative, and why they

are universally read.

Hawkesworth.

5. Remark on Dreaming. Various Transmigrations

related by a Flea.

Hawkesworth.

6. Project for an Auction of Manuscripts, by Timothy

Spinbrain, Author.

Bathurst.

7. Distress encouraged to hope: the History of Melissa.

8. The History of Melissa concluded.

9. Impropriety of Signs.

of Virtue and Vice.

Hawkesworth.

Hawkesworth.

Bathurst.

10. Happiness and Misery, how far the necessary Effects

Hawkesworth.

11. An Allegorical Letter from To-Day. Hawkesworth.

12. The Influence of Infidelity upon Moral Conduct:

Story of Opsinous.
Hawkesworth.