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Pagina v
was represented as an enemy to the church , he would never do it any injury but by withholding Addison from it . In 1695 he wrote a poem to king William and in 1697 another on the peace of Ryfwick . Having yet no public employment ...
was represented as an enemy to the church , he would never do it any injury but by withholding Addison from it . In 1695 he wrote a poem to king William and in 1697 another on the peace of Ryfwick . Having yet no public employment ...
Pagina vi
When he was in office he made a law to himself never to remit his regular fees in civility to his friends : " For ( faid he ) I may have a hundred friends ; and if my fee be two " guineas , I fhall by relinguishing my right lofe two ...
When he was in office he made a law to himself never to remit his regular fees in civility to his friends : " For ( faid he ) I may have a hundred friends ; and if my fee be two " guineas , I fhall by relinguishing my right lofe two ...
Pagina viii
... and taught the frolick and the gay to unite merriment with decency ; an effect which they can never wholly lofe , while they continue to be among the firft books by which both fexes are initiated in the elegancies of knowledge .
... and taught the frolick and the gay to unite merriment with decency ; an effect which they can never wholly lofe , while they continue to be among the firft books by which both fexes are initiated in the elegancies of knowledge .
Pagina xviii
... amiḍft that ftorm of faction in which moft of his life was paffed , tho ' his station made him confpicuous , and his activity made him formidable , the character given him by his friends was never contradicted by his enemies .
... amiḍft that ftorm of faction in which moft of his life was paffed , tho ' his station made him confpicuous , and his activity made him formidable , the character given him by his friends was never contradicted by his enemies .
Pagina xix
Addison is now defpifed by fome who perhaps would never have feen his defects , but by the lights which he afforded them . But before the profound observers of the prefent race repofe too fecurely on their fuperiority to Addison ...
Addison is now defpifed by fome who perhaps would never have feen his defects , but by the lights which he afforded them . But before the profound observers of the prefent race repofe too fecurely on their fuperiority to Addison ...
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