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THE

BRITISH ESSAYISTS.

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BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL.

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AUTHOR OF THE “ NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.”

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123.

ON Seducers of Innocence-Letter to

one from another.........

124. Letters from an University Lion-on

Horns—Burlesque Lyric Visit to

the Lion....

125. Pleasures of Spring—Music of Birds..

126. The Attractions of Friendship and Be-

nevolence

127. The Court of Venus, from Claudian..

128. On the Demolition of Dunkirk

129. On Anger, Revenge, Duelling..

130. Merit of the speculative and active

Part of Mankind..

131. On Habits of Sloth and Vice

132. Letters from a young Man in Sick-

ness—from the Husband of a Wo.

man that is never in the Wrong-

from the Wife of one of the Dumb

Club-on naked Breasts

133. Duel between Sir Edward Sackville

and Lord Bruce

134. The Lion, how treated by the Town-

Complaint of a Wife's Dress....

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