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“ It is praise enough to say of a writer, that, in a high department of literature, in 
which many eminent' writers have distinguished themselves, he has had no equal ; and 
this may, witli strict justice, he said of Addison. . . . He is entitled to be considered 
not only as the greatest of the English essayists, but as the forerunner of the great Eng- 
lish novelists. His best essays approach near to absolute perfection ; nor is their ex- 
cellence more wonderful than their variety. His invention never seems to flag; nor is 
he ever under the necessity of repeating himself, or of wearing out a subject.” — Ma- 
caulay. 
“ He was not only the ornament of his age and country, but he reflects dignity on 
the nature of man. He has divested vice of its meretricious ornaments, and painted 
religion and virtue in the modest and graceful attire which charm and elevate the 
heart.” — Dr. Anderson. 
“In Addison the reader will find a rich and chaste vein of humor and satire ; lessons 
of morality and religion, divested of all austerity and gloom ; criticism at once pleasing 
and profound; and "pictures of n.ational character and manners that must ever charm, 
from their vivacity and truth.” — Dr. Hurd. 
“ Of Addison’s numerous and well-known writings, it may be afiirmed, that they 
Vest on the solid basis of real excellence, in moral tendency as well as literary merit. 
Vice and folly are satirized, virtue and decorum are rendered attractive; and while 
polished diction and Attic wit abound, the purest ethics are inculcated.” — Maunder. 
“ Ilis glory is that of one of our greatest writei’S in prose. Here, with his delicate 
sense of propriety, his lively fancy, and, above all. his most original and exquisite 
humor, he was in his proper walk. He is the founder of a new scliool of popular writ- 
ing, in which, like most other founders of schools, he is still unsurpassed by any who 
have attempted to imitate him. His Spectator gave us the first examples of a style 
possessing all the best qualities of a vehicle of general amusement and instruction ; easy 
and familiar without coarseness, animated without extravagance, polished without un- 
natural labor, and, from its flexibility, adapted to all the variety of the gay and tht 
serious.” — Penny Cyclopedia. 
“ To .correct the vices, ridicule the follies, and dissipate the ignorance, which too 
generally prevailed at the commencement of the eighteenth century, were the great 
and noDle objects the Spectator ever holds in view ; and by enlivening morality with 
wit, and tempering wit Avith morality, not only vverq those objectg. attained in an emi- 
nent degree, but the authors conferred a lasting benefit on their country, by establishing 
and rendering popular a species of writing which has materially tended to cultivate tlie 
understanding, refine the taste, and augment and purify the moral feeling of successive 
generations.” — Chalmers. 
“ He not only brought a good philological taste into fashion, but gave a pleasing ele- 
vation and popular turn to"religious studies, and placed Milton upon a pedestal from 
which he can never be pulled down.” — Aiken. 
“ It stands at the head of all works of the same kind that have since been produced, 
ftnd as a miscellany of polite literature, is not surpassed by any book whatever.”— 
Chambers. 
“ 1 consider the spectator invaluable, as containing on the subject of religion all 
that the world Avould then bear. Had Addison or his friends attempted more, it would 
not have been endured, fi’he work was a stepping-stone to truth of the highest order, 
and, as such, our obligations to it are John Wesley. 
