“Mr. Addison is generally allowed to be the most correct and elegant of all our writers; yet some inaccuracies of style have escaped him, which it is the chief design of the following notes to point out. A work of this sort, well executed, would be of use to foreigners who study our language; and even to such of our countrymen as wish to write it in perfect purity.”—R. Worcester (Bp. Hurd]. “I set out many years ago with a warm admiration of this amiable writer [Addison]. I then took a surfeit of his natural, easy manner; and was taken, like my betters, with the raptures and high rights of Shakspeare. My maturer judgment, or lenient age, (call it which you will,) has now led me back to the favourite of my youth. And here, I think, I shall stick; for such useful sense, in so charming words, I find not elsewhere. His taste is so pure, and his Virgilian prose (as Dr. Young styles it) so exquisite, that I have but now found out, at the close of a critical life, the full value of his writings.”—Ibid. “Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.”—Dr. Johnson. " It was not till three generations had laughed and wept over the pages of Addison that the omission [of a monument to his memory] was supplied by public veneration. At length, in our own time, his image, skilfully graven, appeared in Poets' Corner.—Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism.”—Macaulay. manners. LIBRARY OF THE OF ILLINOIS Received by bequest from Albert H. Lybyer Professor of History University of Illinois 1916-1949 PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS. 31. Answer to a celebrated Pamphlet, entitled, An Argu- ment to prove the Affections of the People of England to be the best Security of the Government; humbly offered to the Consideration of the Patrons of Severity, and applied to the present Juncture of 32. Artifices of the Malecontents to draw the Women into their Party vate the Favour of their Prince 34. Absurdity of admitting a spirit of Party into public Diversions, and particularly those of the Play-house 36. Annals of the Pretender's Reign 37 III Consequences of the late Cry of the Church's Dan- 38. Proposals for a Truce between the Ladies of either Party Day of his Interment 41. Advantages of the Spanish Trade obtained by His present Majesty tained by His present Majesty Subjects 45. The Use and Advantage of Wit and Humour under 64 70 74 PAGE 79 49. Thanksgiving-day for suppressing the late Rebellion 50. The Folly and Mischief of Mobs and Riots 51. Cautions to be observed in the reading of ancient 53. Britons, Free-thinkers in Politics 1. General division of the following discourse, with regard to Pagan and Jewish authors, who mention particulars relato 2. Not probable that any such should be mentioned by Pagan writers who lived at the same time, from the nature 3. Especially when related by the Jews. 4. And heard at a distance by those who pretended to as 5. Besides that no Pagan writers of that age lived in Judea 6. And because many books of that age are lost. 7. An instance of one record proved to be authentic. 8. A second record of probable, though not undoubted, au- 1. What facts in the history of our Saviour might be taken 2. What particular facts are taken notice of, and by what 3. How Celsus represented our Saviour's miracles. 4. The same representation made of them by other unbe- lievers, and proved unreasonable. 1. Introduction to a second list of Pagan authors who give testimony of our Saviour. 2. A passage concerning our Saviour from a learned Athe- nian. 3. His conversion from Paganism to Christianity makes his evidence stronger than if he had continued a Pagan. 4. Of another Athenian philosopher converted to Christ- 5. Why their conversion, instead of weakening, strengthens 6. Their belief in our Saviour's history founded at first upon 7. Their testimonies extended to all the particulars of our 8. As related by the four Evangelists. |
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