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List of most recent chapters published for the The Spectator novel. A total of 437 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Spectator.by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.VOL. I.1891 INTRODUCTION
When Richar
The Spectator.by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.VOL. I.1891 INTRODUCTION
When Richard Steele, in number 555 of his 'Spectator', signed its last paper and named those who had most helped him 'to keep up the spirit of so long and approved
- 1 The Spectator.by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.VOL. I.1891 INTRODUCTION When Richard Steele, in number 555 of his 'Spectator', signed its last paper and named those who had most helped him 'to keep up the spirit of so long and approved
- 2 With that strong regard for the drama which cannot well be wanting to the man who has an artist's vivid sense of life, Steele never withdrew his good will from the players, never neglected to praise a good play, and, I may add, took every fair occasi
- 3 They do not design to expose Persons but things; and of them, none but such as more than ordinarily deserve it; they who would not be censurd by this a.s.sembly, are desired to act with caution enough, not to fall under their Hands; for they resolve to tr
- 4 They seemed indeed at first to think that what was only the garnish of the former 'Tatlers', was that which recommended them; and not those Substantial Entertainments which they everywhere abound in. According they were continually talking of th
- 5 My LORD, I should not act the Part of an impartial Spectator, if I Dedicated the following Papers to one who is not of the most consummate and most acknowledged Merit.None but a person of a finished Character can be the proper Patron of a Work, which ende
- 6 [Footnote 4: This is said to allude to a description of the Pyramids of Egypt, by John Greaves, a Persian scholar and Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, who studied the principle of weights and measures in the Roman Foot and the Denarius, and whos
- 7 [Footnote 2: 'Soho Square' was then a new and most fas.h.i.+onable part of the town. It was built in 1681. The Duke of Monmouth lived in the centre house, facing the statue. Originally the square was called King Square.Pennant mentions, on Pegg&
- 8 'Orb.' Who calls Terra-firma pray?[Enter Sol, to the tune of Robin Hood, &c.]While they dance Bayes cries, mightily taken with his device, 'Now the Earth's before the Moon; now the Moon's before the Sun: there's the Eclipse a
- 9 Hor.An Opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its Decorations, as its only Design is to gratify the Senses, and keep up an indolent Attention in the Audience. Common Sense however requires that there should be nothing in the Scenes and Machine
- 10 'Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, Sagas, Nocturnos lemures, portentaque Thessala rides?'Hor.Going Yesterday to Dine with an old Acquaintance, I had the Misfortune to find his whole Family very much dejected. Upon asking him the Occasion of it
- 11 Not long after the Perusal of this Letter I received another upon the same Subject; which by the Date and Stile of it, I take to be written by some young Templer.Middle Temple, 1710-11.SIR, When a Man has been guilty of any Vice or Folly, I think the best
- 12 XI. None of the Club shall have his Cloaths or Shoes made or mended, but by a Brother Member.XII. No Non-juror shall be capable of being a Member.The Morality of this little Club is guarded by such wholesome Laws and Penalties, that I question not but my
- 13 [Footnote 1: Told in the prose 'Satyricon' ascribed to Petronius, whom Nero called his Arbiter of Elegance. The tale was known in the Middle Ages from the stories of the 'Seven Wise Masters.' She went down into the vault with her husba
- 14 [Footnote 1: The famous Neapolitan actor and singer, Cavalier Nicolino Grimaldi, commonly called Nicolini, had made his first appearance in an opera called 'Pyrrhus and Demetrius,' which was the last attempt to combine English with Italian. His
- 15 Pepys tells of the crowd waiting, in 1667, to see Lady Castlemaine come out from the puppet play of 'Patient Grisel.'The Powell mentioned in this essay was a deformed cripple whose Puppet-Show, called Punch's Theatre, owed its pre-eminence
- 16 No. 16 Monday, March 19. Addison Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum.Hor.I have receiv'd a Letter, desiring me to be very satyrical upon the little m.u.f.f that is now in Fas.h.i.+on; another informs me of a Pair of silver Garte
- 17 Having been very well entertained, in the last of your Speculations that I have yet seen, by your Specimen upon Clubs, which I therefore hope you will continue, I shall take the Liberty to furnish you with a brief Account of such a one as perhaps you have
- 18 One scarce knows how to be serious in the Confutation of an Absurdity that shews itself at the first Sight. It does not want any great Measure of Sense to see the Ridicule of this monstrous Practice; but what makes it the more astonis.h.i.+ng, it is not t
- 19 No. 20.] Friday, March 23, 1711. [Steele.[Greek: Kynos ommat' ech_on ...]Hom.Among the other hardy Undertakings which I have proposed to my self, that of the Correction of Impudence is what I have very much at Heart.This in a particular Manner is my
- 20 'This part of Scythia, in its whole Northern extent, I take to have been the vast Hive out of which issued so many mighty swarms of barbarous nations,' &c. And again, 'Each of these countries was like a mighty hive, which, by the vigour of
- 21 Camilla: And my Life scarce of late-- Linco: You need not repeat.Prenesto: Help me! oh help me![A wild Boar struck by Prenesto.]Huntsman: Lets try to a.s.sist him. Linco: Ye G.o.ds, what Alarm!Huntsman: Quick run to his aid.[Enter Prenesto: The Boar pursu
- 22 'Venienti occurrite morbo.'N. B. Any Person may agree by the Great, and be kept in Repair by the Year.The Doctor draws Teeth without pulling off your Mask.R.No. 23. Tuesday, March 27, 1711 [1] Addison. Savit atrox Volscens, nec teli conspicit us
- 23 No. 24. Wednesday, March 28, 1711. Steele.Accurrit quidam notus mihi nomine tantum; Arreptaque manu, Quid agis dulcissime rerum?Hor.There are in this Town a great Number of insignificant People, who are by no means fit for the better sort of Conversation,
- 24 No. 25. Thursday, March 29, 1711. Addison.... aegrescitque medendo.Vir.The following Letter will explain it self, and needs no Apology.SIR, 'I am one of that sickly Tribe who are commonly known by the Name of _Valetudinarians_, and do confess to you
- 25 [Footnote 5: At the close of the reign of William III. the exiled James II died, and France proclaimed his son as King of England. William III thus was enabled to take England with him into the European War of the Spanish Succession. The accession of Quee
- 26 I shall add to the foregoing Letter, another which came to me by the same Penny-Post.From my own Apartment near Charing-Cross.Honoured Sir, 'Having heard that this Nation is a great Encourager of Ingenuity, I have brought with me a Rope-dancer that w
- 27 [Footnote 3: Henry Purcell died of consumption in 1695, aged 37.'He was,' says Mr. Hullah, in his Lectures on the History of Modern Music, 'the first Englishman to demonstrate the possibility of a national opera. No Englishman of the last c
- 28 The Projector having thus settled Matters, to the good liking of all that heard him, he left his Seat at the Table, and planted himself before the Fire, where I had unluckily taken my Stand for the Convenience of over-hearing what he said. Whether he had
- 29 For the Truth of which he appealed to the Frontispiece of several Books, and particularly to the _English Juvenal_, [3] to which he referred him; and only added, "That such Authors were the _Larvati_ [4] or _Larva donati_ of the Ancients."This c
- 30 But Steele, quoting from memory, altered the words to his purpose. Ben Johnson's lines were: 'Underneath this stone doth lie, As much Beauty as could die, Which in Life did Harbour give To more Virture than doth live.']No. 34. Monday, April
- 31 [Footnote 1: that][Footnote 2: Wit, in the town sense, is talked of to satiety in Shadwell's plays; and window-breaking by the street rioters called 'Scowrers,' who are the heroes of an entire play of his, named after them, is represented t
- 32 'Thun'. I am the bold 'Thunder'.'Light'. The brisk Lightning, I.'][Footnote 4: William Bullock was a good and popular comedian, whom some preferred to Penkethman, because he spoke no more than was set down for him, and d
- 33 The translation of 'Juvenal' and 'Persius' by Dryden, with help of his two sons, and of Congreve, Creech, Tate, and others, was first published in 1693. Dryden translated Satires 1, 3, 6, 10, and 16 of Juvenal, and the whole of Persius
- 34 As a perfect Tragedy is the n.o.blest Production of Human Nature, so it is capable of giving the Mind one of the most delightful and most improving Entertainments. A virtuous Man (says _Seneca_) struggling with Misfortunes, is such a Spectacle as G.o.ds m
- 35 But to shew how a Rant pleases beyond the most just and natural Thought that is not p.r.o.nounced with Vehemence, I would desire the Reader when he sees the Tragedy of _OEdipus_, to observe how quietly the Hero is dismissed at the End of the third Act, af
- 36 "Tom Otter's bull, bear, and horse is known all over England, 'in rerum natura.'"In the fifth act Morose, who has married a Silent Woman and discovered her tongue after marriage, is played upon by the introduction of Otter, disgui
- 37 No. 43. Thursday, April 19, 1711. Steele.'Ha tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, Parcere Subjectis, et debellare Superbos.'Virg.There are Crowds of Men, whose great Misfortune it is that they were not bound to Mechanick Arts or Trades; it
- 38 Among the several Artifices which are put in Practice by the Poets to fill the Minds of [an] [1] Audience with Terror, the first Place is due to Thunder and Lightning, which are often made use of at the Descending of a G.o.d, or the Rising of a Ghost, at
- 39 _Semp.r.o.nia_ is at present the most profest Admirer of the _French_ Nation, but is so modest as to admit her Visitants no further than her Toilet. It is a very odd Sight that beautiful Creature makes, when she is talking Politicks with her Tresses flowi
- 40 Nine other agents, of whom complete sets could be had, were occasionally set forth together with these two in an advertis.e.m.e.nt; but only these are in the colophon.][Footnote 3: Oxonian][Footnote 4: Gilbert Burnet, author of the 'History of the Re
- 41 To the President and Fellows of the _Ugly Club_._May it please your Deformities_, I have received the Notification of the Honour you have done me, in admitting me into your Society. I acknowledge my Want of Merit, and for that Reason shall endeavour at al
- 42 No. 50. Friday, April 27, 1711. [1] Addison.'Nunquam aliud Natura, aliud Sapientia dixit.'Juv.When the four _Indian_ Kings were in this Country about a Twelvemonth ago, [2] I often mixed with the Rabble, and followed them a whole Day together, b
- 43 Steele's Plays were as pure as his 'Spectator' Essays, absolutely discarding the customary way of enforcing feeble dialogues by the spurious force of oaths, and aiming at a wholesome influence upon his audience. The pa.s.sage here recanted
- 44 [Footnote 2: Goblin]No. 53. Tuesday, May 1, 1711. Steele.... Aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus.Hor.My Correspondents grow so numerous, that I cannot avoid frequently inserting their Applications to me. Mr SPECTATOR, 'I am glad I can inform you, that y
- 45 [Footnote 2: _Litterati_]No. 54. Wednesday, May 2, 1711. Steele.'... Sirenua nos exercet inertia.'Hor.The following Letter being the first that I have received from the learned University of _Cambridge_, I could not but do my self the Honour of
- 46 Vive memor lethi: fugit hora. Hoc quod loquor, inde est.En quid agis? Duplici in diversum scinderis hamo.Hunccine, an hunc sequeris!----_ Whether alone, or in thy Harlot's Lap, When thou wouldst take a lazy Morning's Nap; Up, up, says AVARICE; t
- 47 'Quem praestare potest mulier galeata pudorem, Quae fugit a s.e.xu!'Juv.When the Wife of _Hector_, in _Homer's Iliads_, discourses with her Husband about the Battel in which he was going to engage, the Hero, desiring her to leave that Matte
- 48 [Footnote 3: The 'Syrinx' of Theocritus consists of twenty verses, so arranged that the length of each pair is less than that of the pair before, and the whole resembles the ten reeds of the mouth organ or Pan pipes ([Greek: syrigx]). The Egg is
- 49 The Poet rung the [changes [1]] upon these eight several Words, and by that Means made his Verses almost as numerous as the Virtues and the Stars which they celebrated. It is no wonder that Men who had so much Time upon their Hands did not only restore al
- 50 There is no kind of false Wit which has been so recommended by the Practice of all Ages, as that which consists in a Jingle of Words, and is comprehended under the general Name of _Punning_. It is indeed impossible to kill a Weed, which the Soil has a nat
- 51 [Footnote 4: Dominique Bouhours, a learned and accomplished Jesuit, who died in 1702, aged 75, was a Professor of the Humanities, in Paris, till the headaches by which he was tormented until death compelled him to resign his chair. He was afterwards tutor
- 52 Juv.The most improper things we commit in the Conduct of our Lives, we are led into by the Force of Fas.h.i.+on. Instances might be given, in which a prevailing Custom makes us act against the Rules of Nature, Law and common Sense: but at present I shall
- 53 The two following Letters are upon a Subject of very great Importance, tho' expressed without an Air of Gravity.To the SPECTATOR.SIR, I Take the Freedom of asking your Advice in behalf of a Young Country Kinswoman of mine who is lately come to Town,
- 54 'As you are SPECTATOR, I think we, who make it our Business to exhibit any thing to publick View, ought to apply our selves to you for your Approbation. I have travelled Europe to furnish out a Show for you, and have brought with me what has been adm
- 55 [Footnote 1: Ecclesiasticus vii. 5, 6.][Footnote 2: Eccles. vi. 7, and following verses.][Footnote 3: Eccles. vi. 15-18.][Footnote 4: Eccles. ix. 10.][Footnote 5: Eccles. ix, 20-22.] [Footnote 6: Eccles. xxvii. 16, &c.][Footnote 7: Cicero 'de Amiciti
- 56 The greatest Modern Criticks have laid it down as a Rule, that an Heroick Poem should be founded upon some important Precept of Morality, adapted to the Const.i.tution of the Country in which the Poet writes._Homer_ and _Virgil_ have formed their Plans in
- 57 No. 71. Tuesday, May 22, 1711. Steele.'... Scribere jussit Amor.'Ovid.The entire Conquest of our Pa.s.sions is so difficult a Work, that they who despair of it should think of a less difficult Task, and only attempt to Regulate them. But there i
- 58 '... Genus immortale manet, multosque per annos Stat fortuna Domus, et avi numerantur avorum.'Virg.Having already given my Reader an Account of several extraordinary Clubs both ancient and modern, I did not design to have troubled him with any m
- 59 [Footnote 3: 'Paradise Lost', Bk. I.][Footnote 4: The story is in 'The Remedy of Love' Stanzas 5--10.]No. 74. Friday, May 25, 1711. Addison.'... Pendent opera interrupta ...'Virg. In my last _Monday's_ Paper I gave some
- 60 In the Catalogue of the _English_ [who [5]] fell, _Witherington's_ Behaviour is in the same manner particularized very artfully, as the Reader is prepared for it by that Account which is given of him in the Beginning of the Battle [; though I am sati
- 61 Hor.There is nothing so common as to find a Man whom in the general Observations of his Carriage you take to be of an uniform Temper, subject to such unaccountable Starts of Humour and Pa.s.sion, that he is as much unlike himself and differs as much from
- 62 No. 78. Wednesday, May 30, 1711. Steele.c.u.m Talis sis, Utinam noster esses!The following Letters are so pleasant, that I doubt not but the Reader will be as much diverted with them as I was. I have nothing to do in this Day's Entertainment, but tak
- 63 _A Woman seldom writes her Mind but in her Postscript_.I think this Gentlewoman has sufficiently discovered hers in this. I'll lay what Wager she pleases against her present Favourite, and can tell her that she will Like Ten more before she is fixed,
- 64 _My_ LORD, Similitude of Manners and Studies is usually mentioned as one of the strongest motives to Affection and Esteem; but the pa.s.sionate Veneration I have for your Lords.h.i.+p, I think, flows from an Admiration of Qualities in You, of which, in th
- 65 I say, when I behold this vast Variety of Persons and Humours, with the Pains they both take for the Accomplishment of the Ends mentioned in the above Verse of _Denham,_ I cannot much wonder at the Endeavour after Gain, but am extremely astonished that Me
- 66 Looking over the old Ma.n.u.script wherein the private Actions of _Pharamond_ [1] are set down by way of Table-Book. I found many things which gave me great Delight; and as human Life turns upon the same Principles and Pa.s.sions in all Ages, I thought it
- 67 [Footnote 8: Addison had incurred much ridicule from the bad taste of the time by his papers upon Chevy Chase, though he had gone some way to meet it by endeavouring to satisfy the Dennises of 'that polite age,'with authorities from Virgil. Amon
- 68 No. 87. Sat.u.r.day, June 9, 1711. Steel.'... Nimium ne crede colori.'Virg.It has been the Purpose of several of my Speculations to bring People to an unconcerned Behaviour, with relation to their Persons, whether beautiful or defective. As the
- 69 Philo-Britannicus This honest Gentleman, who is so desirous that I should write a Satyr upon Grooms, has a great deal of Reason for his Resentment; and I know no Evil which touches all Mankind so much as this of the Misbehaviour of Servants.The Complaint
- 70 '... Magnus sine viribus Ignis Inca.s.sum furit'Virg.There is not, in my Opinion, a Consideration more effectual to extinguish inordinate Desires in the Soul of Man, than the Notions of _Plato_ and his Followers [1] upon that Subject. They tell
- 71 [Footnote 2: A famous duelling place under elm trees, in a meadow half surrounded by the Thames.]No. 92. Friday, June 15, 1711. Addison.'... Convivae prope dissentire videntur, Poscentes vario multum diversa palato; Quid dem? Quid non dem?'Hor.L
- 72 But of all the Diversions of Life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty s.p.a.ces as the reading of useful and entertaining Authors. But this I shall only touch upon, because it in some Measure interferes with the third Method, which I shall propo
- 73 The second Letter is from a Lady of a Mind as great as her Understanding. There is perhaps something in the Beginning of it which I ought in Modesty to conceal; but I have so much Esteem for this Correspondent, that I will not alter a t.i.ttle of what she
- 74 _Pharamond's_ Edict against Duels.Pharamond, _King of the_ Gauls, _to all his loving Subjects sendeth Greeting_.Whereas it has come to our Royal Notice and Observation, that in contempt of all Laws Divine and Human, it is of late become a Custom amon
- 75 Hor.The Club, of which I have often declared my self a Member, were last Night engaged in a Discourse upon that which pa.s.ses for the chief Point of Honour among Men and Women; and started a great many Hints upon the Subject, which I thought were entirel
- 76 L.[Footnote 1: Swift.][Footnote 2: In his 'Principia', published 1687, Newton says this to show that the nuclei of Comets must consist of solid matter.][Footnote 3: a][Footnote 4: a whole] No. 102. Wednesday, June 27, 1711. Addison.'... Lus
- 77 '... Amongst too many other Instances of the great Corruption and Degeneracy of the Age wherein we live, the great and general Want of Sincerity in Conversation is none of the least. The World is grown so full of Dissimulation and Compliment, that Me
- 78 They are obliged indeed to be thus lavish of their Praises, that they may keep one another in Countenance; and it is no wonder if a great deal of Knowledge, which is not capable of making a Man wise, has a natural Tendency to make him Vain and Arrogant.L.
- 79 There is another Circ.u.mstance in which my Friend excells in his Management, which is the Manner of rewarding his Servants: He has ever been of Opinion, that giving his cast Cloaths to be worn by Valets has a very ill Effect upon little Minds, and create
- 80 Sir ROGER went on with his Account of the Gallery in the following Manner.'This Man (pointing to him I looked at) I take to be the Honour of our House. Sir HUMPHREY DE COVERLEY; he was in his Dealings as punctual as a Tradesman, and as generous as a
- 81 _Secondly_, From its Pa.s.sions and Sentiments, as particularly from its Love of Existence, its Horrour of Annihilation, and its Hopes of Immortality, with that secret Satisfaction which it finds in the Practice of Virtue, and that Uneasiness which follow
- 82 'It is, quoth the good Old Man, looking round him with a Smile, very hard, that any Part of my Land should be settled upon one who has used me so ill as the perverse Widow [1] did; and yet I am sure I could not see a Sprig of any Bough of this whole
- 83 No. 115. Thursday, July 12, 1711. Addison.'... Ut sit Mens sana in Corpore sano.'Juv.Bodily Labour is of two Kinds, either that which a Man submits to for his Livelihood, or that which he undergoes for his Pleasure. The latter of them generally
- 84 [Footnote 3: Pascal, who wrote a treatise on Conic sections at the age of 16, and had composed most of his mathematical works and made his chief experiments in science by the age of 26, was in constant suffering, by disease, from his 18th year until his d
- 85 'Don't, my Dear, believe a Word _Kate Willow_ says; she is spiteful and makes Stories, because she loves to hear me talk to her self for your sake.'Look you there, quoth Sir Roger, do you see there, all Mischief comes from Confidents! But l
- 86 L.[Footnote 1: depose]No. 121. Thursday, July 19, 1711. Addison.'... Jovis omnia plena.'Virg. As I was walking this Morning in the great Yard that belongs to my Friend's Country House, I was wonderfully pleased to see the different Workings
- 87 Upon his first Rising the Court was hushed, and a general Whisper ran among the Country People that Sir ROGER _was up_. The Speech he made was so little to the Purpose, that I shall not trouble my Readers with an Account of it; and I believe was not so mu
- 88 No. 125. Tuesday, July 24, 1711. Addison.'Ne pueri, ne tanta animis a.s.suescite bella: Neu patriae validas in viscera vert.i.te vires.'Vir.My worthy Friend Sir ROGER, when we are talking of the Malice of Parties, very frequently tells us an Acc
- 89 [Footnote 1: Bibliothecae Historicae, Lib. i. -- 87.][Footnote 2: concerns to][Footnote 3: that]No. 127. Thursday, July 26, 1711. Addison.'Quantum est in rebus Inane?' Pers.It is our Custom at Sir ROGER'S, upon the coming in of the Post, to
- 90 The younger _Faustina_ was a lively Instance of this sort of Women.Notwithstanding she was married to _Marcus Aurelius_, one of the greatest, wisest, and best of the _Roman_ Emperors, she thought a common Gladiator much the prettier Gentleman; and had tak
- 91 No. 130. Monday, July 30, 1711. Addison.'... Semperque recentes Convectare juvat praedas, et vivere rapto.'Virg.As I was Yesterday riding out in the Fields with my Friend Sir ROGER, we saw at a little Distance from us a Troop of Gypsies. Upon th
- 92 _Dear_ SPEC, _Thine Eternally_, WILL. HONEYCOMB.C.[Footnote 1: an] [Footnotes 2: that]No. 132. Wednesday, August 1, 1711. Steele.'... Qui aut Tempus quid postulet non videt, aut plura loquitur, aut se ostentat, aut eorum quibusc.u.m est rationem non
- 93 Men of exalted Minds march before us like Princes, and are, to the Ordinary Race of Mankind, rather Subjects for their Admiration than Example. However, there are no Ideas strike more forcibly upon our Imaginations; than those which are raised from Reflec
- 94 No. 135. Sat.u.r.day, August 4, 1711. Addison.'Est brevitate opus, ut currat Sententia ...'Hor.I have somewhere read of an eminent Person, who used in his private Offices of Devotion to give Thanks to Heaven that he was born a _Frenchman:_ For m
- 95 _Your Humble Servant_, &c.T.[Footnote 1: Prime Minister of Charles XII.][Footnote 2: exactly][Footnote 3: In the Spring of 1698.] [Footnote 4: or][Footnote 5: has]No. 137. Tuesday, August 7, 1711. Steele.At haec etiam Servis semper libera fuerunt, timeren
- 96 Next to these ingenious Gentlemen, who argue for what no body can deny them, are to be ranked a sort of People who do not indeed attempt to prove insignificant things, but are ever labouring to raise Arguments with you about Matters you will give up to th
- 97 When I acquaint my Reader, that I have many other Letters not yet acknowledged, I believe he will own, what I have a mind he should believe, that I have no small Charge upon me, but am a Person of some Consequence in this World. I shall therefore employ t
- 98 T.[Footnote 1: This letter, signed Parthenia, was by Miss Shepheard, sister of Mrs. Perry, who wrote the Letter in No, 92, signed 'Leonora.']No. 141. Sat.u.r.day, August 11, 1711. Steele.'... Migravit ab Aure voluptas Omnis ...'Hor. In
- 99 '... Irrupta tenet Copula ...'Hor.The following Letters being Genuine, [1] and the Images of a Worthy Pa.s.sion, I am willing to give the old Lady's Admonition to my self, and the Representation of her own Happiness, a Place in my Writings.
- 100 No. 143. Tuesday, August 14, 1711. Steele.'Non est vivere sed valere Vita.'Martial.It is an unreasonable thing some Men expect of their Acquaintance. They are ever complaining that they are out of Order, or Displeased, or they know not how, and