THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS; WITH PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL, BY THE REV. LIONEL THOMAS BERGUER, LATE OF ST. MARY HALL, OXON: FELLOW EXTRAORDINARY OF THE IN FORTY-FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. XVII. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. AND J. ALLMAN, PRINCES STREET, HANOVER SQUARE: W. Baynes and Son, Paternoster Row; A. B. Dulau and Co. Soho Square; CONTENTS TO VOL. XVII. 55. IMPORTANCE of Christianity to Virtue Berkeley. 56. Reproof and Reproach, a Vision. Parnell. 57. Of Courtship-Questions and Rules for Steele. 58. Public Spirit-Letter from a Hackney Author Steele. Berkeley. 63. Strictures on the Examiner-Extract from Lu- 64. Petition of the Artificers, of Esau Ringwood, Susannah How-d'ye-call, and Hugh Pounce- Parnell. Steele. 69. On Fenelon's Demonstration of the Existence, Wisdom, and Omnipotence of God. 70. Analogy between St. Paul's and the Christian Church-Narrowness of Freethinkers Berkeley. 71. Observations on the Increase of Lions-Charac- 72. On the Oxford Terræ-filius-Abuse of his Office Steele. ing Interests Steele. 106. Vision of Aurelia with a Window in her Breast 111. Improper Conduct of the British Youth-Love |