BRITISH ESSAYISTS WITH PREFACES, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, BY A. CHALMERS, F.S.A. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR NICHOLS AND SON; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; G. AND W. NICOL; CLARKE AND SONS; A. STRAHAN; G. WILKIE; SCATCHERD AND LETTERMAN; J. NUNN; J. CUTHELL; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND Co.; CADELL AND DAVIES; LAW AND WHITTAKER; CARPENTER AND SON; S. BAGSTER; J. AND A. ARCH; LACKINGTON AND CO.; J. BLACK AND SON; BLACK, PARBURY AND ALLEN; J. ASPERNE; J. OTRIDGE; J. RICHARDSON; J. M. RICHARDSON; R. SCHOLEY; HIGHLEY AND SON; J. HATCHARD; J. HARRIS; R. S. KIRBY; R. PHENEY; J. MAWMAN; BALDwin, CRADOCK AND JOY; J. BOOKER; N. HAILES; SHERWOOD, NEELY AND JONES; J. EBERS; P. AND W. WYNNE; GALE AND FENNER; C. BROWN; OGLES, DUNCAN AND COCHRAN ; J. BOHN; A. K. NEWMAN AND CO.; RODWELL AND MARTIN; E. WILSON; ROBINSON; WALKER AND EDWARDS; R. SAUNDERS; W. H. REID; G. MACKIE; J. HARPER; WILSON AND SONS, YORK; A. CONSTABLE AND CO.; OLIVER AND BOYD; AND J. FAIRBAIRN,, EDINBURGH. J. · ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS, 1803. WHEN this Edition of the BRItish ESSAYISTS was undertaken by the Proprietors, the office of Editor was intended to be confined chiefly to the collation of the several papers with the folio originals, or with the best editions in other forms. The many errors that had crept into the most valuable of these works, and had been copied from edition to edition without discovery and without disturbance, rendered this highly necessary; and it was a task, however laborious, which the Editor will remember with pleasure, if it |