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Joseph Addison
(1672-1719)

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Joseph Addison, "The Pleasures of the Imagination" in The Spectator, No. 416, July 2, 1712 It is possible this defect of imagination [the inability to get one's brain around the very, very large or the very, very tiny] may not be in the soul itself but as it acts in conjunction with the body. Per .. .. more >>

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"It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in those Respects which stir up this Passion."
Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 47 (1711).

"When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it."
Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 117 (1711).

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Joseph Addison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719) was an English essayist, poet, and man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison, later dean of Lichfield. ...
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Joseph Addison; Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, ... Joseph Addison; What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, ...
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About Addison Peter Smithers, The Life of Addison. Oxford, 1954. Joseph Addison Criticism from Internet Public Library. ...
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Addison, Joseph. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07
Addison, Joseph. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
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