THE

BRITISH ESSAYISTS;

WITH

PREFACES,

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL,

BY

ALEXANDER CHALMERS, F. S. A.

VOL. XXXVII.

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, R.FAULDER, G. AND W. NICHOL,
T. PAYNE, G. ROBINSON, W. LOWNDES, WILKIE AND
ROBINSON, SCATCHERD AND LETTERMAN, J. WALKER,
VERNOR, HOOD AND SHARPE, R. LEA, DARTON AND HAR-
VEY, J. NUNN, LACKINGTON AND CO., CLARKE AND SON,
G. KEARSLEY, C. LAW, J. WHITE, LONGMAN, HURST, REES,
AND ORME, CADELL AND DAVIES, LANE AND NEWMAN, H.
D. SYMONDS, J. BARKER, WYNNE AND CO., POTE AND CO.,
J. CARPENTER, W. MILLER, S. BAGSTER, T. BOOSEY, R.
PHENEY, R. FLOYER, J. MURRAY, R. HIGHLEY, BLACK,
PARRY AND KINGSBURY, J. HARDING, R. H. EVANS, J. MAW.
MAN, J. BOOKER, J. ASPERNE, J. HARRIS, H. EBERS, AND
W.CREECH, EDINBURGH.

Geddes Family

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CONTENTS.

VOL. XXXVII.

No.

152.

N the Discrimination of Female Character-Different
Plan of Education in two Mothers of Different Ta-
lents and Dispositions . .

53. The Petition of Night, complaining of the Encroach.

ments of fashionable People, and proposing a new

Table of Time for their Use-Distresses of a

young Lady not quite so young as she once was;

in a Letter from Jessamina

✓ 54. Effects of great Cities on Manners-Journal of Arri-

vals in Edinburgh.

55. Letter from Hannah Waitfort, giving an Account of

her Sufferings from a Woman of keen Feelings

✓56. Marjory Mushroom's Account of her life in Town-

Hardships to be endured by a Disciple of the Ton.

57. Family Happiness of Aurelius, an amiable old Man

✓58. Mary Plain's Account of a Hunter after Truth

59. The Pains and Penalties of Idleness, particularly in the

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Life of a Man of Fashion

47.

60. Scheme of a literary Projector, for a new Sort of Peri-

odical Publication

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V61. Of the Duty to Servants-Story of Albert Bane

62. Third Letter of Marjory Mushroom, giving an Ac-

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count of her Feelings on her Return to the
Country.

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