THE

BRITISH ESSAYISTS;

WITH

PREFACES,
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL,

BY

ALEXANDER CHALMERS, A.M.

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VOL. XXXVII.

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N° 75.-110.

CONTENTS.

VOL. XXXVII.

No. I

Page

75. Letter from Timothy Shuttleworth, stating his

Difficulties in reading the Newspapers General
Leflections on the Abuses of those daily Intel-

ligencers ....................... I

76. Dinner at Mr. Melfort's-Hard Drinking-Mr. Um

phraville's Reflections on modern Manners .... 6

77. The Effect of Difficulty in Attainment to heighten

our Keenness in Pursuit-Argument deduced

from this with Regard to the Rule of Poetical

Justice ........................ 12

78. Letter from John Hearty, giving an Account of his

Sufferings from an extreme propensity to Friend-

ship .......................... 17

79. Integer on negatively good Men-Scheme of a News-

paper to relate what Things are not done Ob-

servations on Pastoral Poetry ........... 23

80. Critique on that Species of Composition known by

the Name of Advertisement .............

81. Distresses of an Heiress; in a Letter from Olivia ... 38

82. On Sigh-posts, as the Reward of public Merit, and

and Criterion of National Success ......... 43

83. Enquiry into the Causes of the Scarcity of humorous

Writers in Scotland ................. 50