Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addisonwas an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 May 1672
atheism kind infinite
Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.
wrath safety atheism
One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.
art design amity
There is a great amity between designing and art.
art race people
The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.
evil anxiety pressure
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.
imperfection
The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.
honor ancestry merit
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.
lying impossible heavy
The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.
beautiful light track
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.
song air fire
Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.
men weak-man may
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
thinking done should
I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.
conspiracy should
Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed.
years yesterday great-day
When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.