THE

BRITISH ESSAYISTS:

WITH

PREFACES,

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL,

BY

A. CHALMERS, F. S. A.

VOLUME I.

BOSTON:

LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY.

M.DCCC.LV.

PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT.

THIS edition of Chalmers's BRITISH ESSAYISTS is an exact reprint of that published in London in 1823, edited, with many corrections and improvements, by an anonymous hand, (G. W.)

It is now published for the first time in America, and if found acceptable to the public, may be followed by the later Essayists, in a similar style.