ESSAYS

ON

1830

INTERESTING AND USEFUL

SUBJECTS,

WITH A FEW INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

ON

ENGLISH COMPOSITION;

DESIGNED TO SSIST YOUTH IN THE STYLE AND

ARRANGEMENT OF THEMES.

BY E. JOHNSON.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR C. J. G. & F. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL CHURCH-YARD,

AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

1830.

TO MY SONS,

WHO,

IN THE CONTENTS OF THE FOLLOWING PAGES,

FOUND ENCOURAGEMENT

TO THEIR EARLIEST ATTEMPTS AT WRITING THEMES,

THIS SMALL VOLUME

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

On the Sentence of Death passed by Junius Brutus on his