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ADVENTURER.

-Tentanda via est; quâ me quoque possim
Tollere humo, victorque virum volitare per ora.
VIRG. GEORG. iii. 9.

On vent'rous wing in quest of praise I go,
And leave the gazing multitude below.

No. 92-140.

THE

BRITISH ESSAYISTS:

WITH

PREFACES,

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL,

BY

A. CHALMERS, F.S.A.

VOL. XXI.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1866.

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