The Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq., Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Joseph Addison

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ISBN 10: 0483758655 ISBN 13: 9780483758650

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Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq., Vol. 1 of 3

Of fome other copies of verfes, print ed in the Mijl'ellanier, while he was young, the largefi is an Account of toe green]? Engli/b Poets; in the clofe Of which he infinuates a defign he then had of going into holy. Orders, to which he was Itrongly importuned by his father. His remarkable ferioufnefs and model'ty, which might have been urged as power ful realons for his choofing that life, proved the chief Obftacles to it. T hefe qualities, by which the priefihood is (o much adorned, reprefented the duties of it as too weighty for him; and ren dered him I'till the more worthy Of that honour, which they made him decline. It is happy that this very cir cumfiance has fince turned fo much to the advantage Of virtue and religion, in. The caufe of which he has bellowed his labours the more fuccefsfully, as they were his voluntary, not his necelfary employment. The world became in finfibly reconciled to wifdom and good nel's, when they faw them recommend ed by him with at leaft as much fpirit and elegance, as they had been ridiculed for half a century.

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