THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS. WITH PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL. BY JAMES FERGUSON, ESQ. AUTHOR OF THE "NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY." Second Edition. IN FORTY VOLUMES. XXXVII. KNOX'S ESSAYS, VOL. III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. RICHARDSON AND CO.; G. OFFOR; T. TEGG; AND R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW. 1823. 118. On the Character of Addison as a Poet 119. The Folly of bringing up Children to a Learned Profession, without the probability of providing them with a Competency... 23 122. On the Importance of Governing the Temper 18 123. On the Moral Effects of a good Tragedy 128. On some of the False Pretensions and Imposi- tions of the Artful and Avaricious........ 129. On the Prevailing Taste in Poetry |