THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS; WITH PREFACES, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS, A. M. VOL. XLIII. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, J. NICHOLS, R. BALDWIN, F. AND C. RIVINGTON, 1803. CONTENTS. 84. GENERAL observations on the social character. 85. Advice to a man of landed property. 86. Author explains the motives of his work and con- 91. A review of the present state of society in this 92. Letter from Posthumous, complaining of a certain writer, who had published a collection of his memoirs and remarkable sayings. 93. Kit Cracker, a dealer in the marvellous. 94. Walter Wormwood, an envious defamer. 95. Letter from Simon Sapling, describing his own 96. On the topic of procrastination. 97. Letter from Benevolus, giving an account of a damper. 98. Letters from various correspondents, particularly from Gorgon, a self-conceited painter of the de- 99. Discovery of a curious Greek fragment. |