SPECTATOR.
[by Josefesi Addines and Richard Steele).

VOLUME the SECOND,

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To the RIGHT HONOURABLE

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CHARLES LORD HALLIFAX.

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My LORD,
IMILITUDE of manners and studies is usually

mentioned as one of the strongest motives to affection and esteem; but the passionate veneration I have for your Lordship, I think, flows from an admiration of qualities in You, of which, in the whole course of these papers, I have acknowledged myself incapable. While I busy myself as a stranger upon earth, and can pretend to no other than being a tooker-on, You are conspicuous in the busy and polite world, both in the world of men, and that of letters: While I am filent and unobserved in publick meetings, You are admired by all that approach you as the life and genius of the converfation, What an happy conjunction of different talents meets in him w

whofe whole discourse is at once animated by the strength and force of reason, and adorned with all the grace and embellishments of wit : When learning irradiates common life, it is then in its highest use and perfection; and it is to such as your Lordship, that the sciences owe the esteem which they have with the active part of mankind. Knowledge of books in recluse men, VOL. II. à 2

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