OF

JOSEPH ADDISON,

INCLUDING

THE WHOLE CONTENTS OF BP. HURD'S EDITION, WITH LETTERS
AND OTHER PIECES NOT FOUND IN ANY PREVIOUS
COLLECTION; AND MACAULAY'S ESSAY

ON HIS LIFE AND WORKS.

New York:

G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 321 BROADWAY.

3

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858,
BY GEO. P. PUTNAM & CO.,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the bouthern
District of New-York.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

THE SPECTATOR:

253. On Detraction among bad Poets-Pope's Essay on Criti-

cism,

255. Uses of Ambition-Fame difficult to be obtained,

256. Subject-Disadvantages of Ambition,

257. Ambition hurtful to the Hopes of Futurity,

261. Love and Marriage,

262 The Spectator's Success-Caution in Writing-an-

nounces his criticism on Milton,

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265. Female Head-dress-Will Honeycomb's Notions of it,

267. Criticism on Paradise Lost,

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279.

285.

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297.

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THE SPECTATOR (Continued),

339. Criticism on Paradise Lost,

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269. Visit from Sir Roger-his Opinions on various Matters, 169

271. Letters from Tom Trippit, complaining of a Greek Quo-

tation-soliciting a Peep at Sir Roger from a Showman, 177

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275. Dissection of a Beau's Head,

281. Dissection of a Coquette's Heart,

287. On the Civil Constitution of Great Britain,

289. Reflections on Bills of Mortality-Story of a Dervise,
Connexion betwixt Prudence and good Fortune-Fable
of a Drop in the Ocean,

293.

295. Letter on Pin-Money-Reflections on that Custom,

299. Letter from Sir John Envil, married to a Woman of

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Quality,

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305. Project of the new French Political Academy,

311. Remarks on Fortune-stealers-on Widows,

218

317. On waste of Time-Journal of a Citizen,

222

323. Clarinda's Journal of a week,

227

329. Visit with Sir Roger de Coverley to Westminster Abbey, 233

335. Sir Roger de Coverley at the Theatre,

239

343. Transmigration of Souls-Letter from a Monkey,

249

349.

Consolation and Intrepidity in Death,

252

355. Use to be made of Enemies, .

256

361. Letter on Cat-calls-History of them,

259

367.

Various Advantages of the Spectators-Paper-Printing 263

371. Humorous way of sorting Companies-for Mirth-for

useful Purposes,

377. Bill of Mortality of Lovers,

381. Cheerfulness preferable to Mirth,

383, Sir Roger de Coverley's Visit to Spring Gardens,

887. Motives to Cheerfulness,

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THE SPECTATOR (Continued),

391.

393.

397. On Compassion-Ann Boleyn's Letter,

399. Hypocrisy, various kinds of it,

403. Speculations of Coffee-house Politicians on the Death of

the King of France,

305

On the Improvement of Sacred Music,

309

Character of English Oratory-Use of proper Gestures, 312

Characteristics of Taste,

315

Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagination,

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Heathen Fables on Prayers-Vanity of Human Wishes,
Reflections on the Delights of Spring,

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453. On pious Gratitude-Poem on it,

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421.

433. Advantages of the Sexes associating-History of a Male

Republic,

434. History of a Female Republic,

435. Female Dress-Mixture of the Sexes in one Person-
Female Equestrians,

439. The Manners of Courts-The Spy and the Cardinal,
440. Proceedings of the Infirmary for Ill-humoured People,
441. Happiness of Dependence on the Supreme Being,
445. On the new Stamp-Success of the Spectator,

446. Degeneracy of the Stage,

447. Influence of Custom-Moral deduced from it,
451. On defamatory Publications,

452. On News-writers and Readers-Specimen of a Newspa-

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