THE SPECTATOR. VOL. II. The TENTH EDITION. LONDON: Printed for J. TONSON, at Shakespear's-Head, over- Lately Publishd in Verse and Prose, of the HE Miscellaneous Works T late Right Honourable JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; in Three Volumes. Confifting of fuch as were never before Printed in 12mo. With some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Mr. Tickell. N. B. These Three Volumes, with the Tatlers, Specta tors, Guardians, Freeholder, and Remarks on several Parts of Italy, compleat Mr. Addison's Works in Twelves. To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Hallifax. MY LORD, S Imilitude of Manners and Studies is usually mentioned as one of the strongest Motives to Affection and Esteem; but the passionate Veneration I have for your Lordship, I think, flows from an Admiration of Qualities in You, of which, in the whole course of these Papers I have A 2 acknow acknowledged my self incapable. While I busie my self as a Stranger upon Earth, and can pretend to no оther than being a Looker-on, You are confpicuous in the Busse and Polite World, both in the World of Men and that of Letters: While I am filent and unobserv'd in publick Meetings, You are admired by all that approach You as the Life and Genius of the Conversation. What an happy Conjunction of different Talents meets in him whose whole Discourse is at once animated by the Strength and Force of Reason, and adorned with all the Graces and Embellishments of Wit? When Learning irradiates common Life, it is then in its highest Use and Perfection; and it is to such as Your Lordship, that the Sciences owe the Esteem which they have with the active Part of Mankind. Mankind. Knowledge of Books in reclufe Men, is like that fort of Lan thorn which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy Paths of his own s but in the Poffeffion of a Man of Business, it is a Torch in the Hand of one who is willing and able to shew those, who are bewildered, the Way which leads to their Prosperity and Welfare. A generous Concern for your Country, and a Paffion for every thing which is truly Great and Noble, are what actuate all Your Life and Actions; and I hope You will forgive me that I have an Ambition this Book may be placed in the Library of so good a Judge of what is valuable, in that Library where the Choice is such, that it will not be a Disparagement to be the meanest Author in it. Forgive me, |