THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS; WITH PREFACES, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS, A. M. VOL. V. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, J. NICHOLS AND SON, R. BALDWIN, F. AND C. RIVINGTON, W. OTRIDGE AND SON, W. J. AND J. RICHARDSON, A. STRAHAN, J. SEWELL, R. FAULDER, G. AND W. NICOL, T. PAYNE, G. AND J. ROBINSON, W LOWNDES, G. WILKIE, J. MATHEWS, P. M'QUEEN, OGILVY AND SON. J. SCATCHERD, J. WALKER, VERNOR AND HOOD, R. LEA, DARTON AND HARVEY, J. NUNN, LACKINGTON AND CO. D. WAlker, CLARKE AND SON, G. KEARSLEY, C. LAW, J. WHITE, LONGMAN AND REES, CADELL, JUN, AND DAVIES, J. BARKER, T. KAY, WYNNE AND CO. POTE AND CO. CARPENTER AND CO. W. MILLER, MURRAY AND HIGHLEY, s. BAGSTER, T. HURST, T. BOOSEY, R. PHENEY, W. BAYNE3, J. HARDING, R. H. EVANS, J. MAWMAN; AND W. CREECH, EDINBURGH., 1803. CONTENTS. 211. Uses of Sunday-On Devotion 212. On Simplicity of Ornament-Letters on an Ass in the Lion's Skin-From a 213. On Dissimulation and Simulation-Tom Trueman, a Hero in Domestic Life 214. On the Rigid and the Supple-Account 215. Account of a Flatterer-And a common Jester-Case of a Widow-Petition of |