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Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison was a British writer and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. His simple prose style marked the end of the mannerisms and conventional classical images of the 17th century. Addison is also famous for his play Cato, a Tragedy, writte…
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culture · British writer and politician (1672–1719) · politician · writer · playwright · poet · journalist · editor · librettist · correspondent · essayist · philosopher · also Joseph Addison, Joseph Addisson, Right Hon. Joseph Addison, Jozef Adddison, Addison
Born 1 May 1672 · Died 17 June 1719 · Q206384
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2005· 1 entry
An Austrian banker and collector named Albin Schram died, and in a file cabinet next to his laundry room a collection of a thousand letters was found, some of them of interest to historians
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1866· 1 entry
Seven years after Macaulay's death in 1859:
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1719· 11 entries
Died 1719-06-17.
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“See in what peace a Christian can die!”
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“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.”
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“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”
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“Felicidade é alguém para amar, algo para fazer e algo para aspirar.”
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“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”
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“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.”
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“I have sent for you that you may see in what peace a Christian may die.”
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“I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.”
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“We are always doing something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.”
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“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”
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1672· 1 entry
Born 1672-05-01.
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