The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator [no. 162-483

Joseph Addison

H. G. Bohn, 1865 - 8 pages

Contents

• SPECTATOR: vii
• Durability of WritingAnecdote of an atheistical: 16
• Discretion and Cunning: 109
• Fragment of Sappho: 115
• History of the Lovers Leap: 121
• Various Ways of managing a Debate: 136
• Different Classes of Female Orators: 146
• On Goodnature as the Effect of Constitution: 169
• Goodnature as a Moral Virtue: 177
• On FableFable of Pleasure and Pain: 183
• Cruelty of ParentsLetter from a Father to his Son: 189
• On Temperance: 195
• DevotionEnthusiasm: 201
• Notions of the Heathens on Devotion: 207
• SPECTATOR PAGR 305 Project of the new French Political Academy 313: 211
• On habitual good Intentions: 213
• Vanity of Honours and Titles: 219
• Letter on the Cries of London: 251
• Ambition hurtful to the Hopes of Futurity: 257
• Female HeaddressWill Honeycombs Notions of: 265
• Criticism on Paradise Lost: 293
• Letter from Sir John Envil married to a Woman: 299
• Letter on FortunestealersRemarks on themon: 311
• Widows: 320
• Criticism on Paradise Lost 217: 324
• Criticism on Paradise Lost 230: 329
• Criticism on Paradise Lost 236: 332
• Criticism on Paradise Lost 243: 335
• Criticism on Paradise Lost 249: 339
• Criticism on Paradise Lost 255: 342
• Criticism on Paradise Lost 262: 344
• Criticism on Paradise Lost 270: 348
• Criticism on Paradise Lost 277: 350
• Bill of Mortality of Lovers: 353
• Cheerfulness preferable to Mirth: 356
• Sir Roger de Coverleys Visit to Spring Gardens: 360
• Motives to Cheerfulness: 362
• Heathen Fables on PrayersVanity of Human Wishes: 366
• Reflections on the Delights of Spring: 370
• On CompositionAnne Boleyns Letter: 373
• Hypocrisy various kinds of it: 376
• Speculations of Coffeehouse Politicians on the Death of the King of France: 380
• On the Improvement of Sacred Music: 382
• Character of English OratoryUse of proper Gestures: 385
• Characteristics of Taste: 387
• 411421 Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagination 393430: 393
• Advantages of the Sexes associatingHistory of a male Republic: 433
• Female DressMixture of the Sexes in one Person Female Equestrians: 435
• SPECTATOR FAGE 439 The Manners of CourtsThe Spy and the Cardinal: 438
• Proceedings of the Infirmary for Illhumoured People: 441
• Happiness of Dependance on the Supreme Being: 444
• On the new StampSuccess of the Spectator: 447
• Degeneracy of the Stage: 450
• Influence of CustomMoral deduced from it: 453
• On defamatory Publications: 457
• On Newswriters and ReadersSpecimen of a News paper: 461
• On pious GratitudePoem on it: 464
• Proposal for a Newspaper of Whispers: 467
• On true and false Modesty: 470
• On religious Faith and Practice: 473
• Weight of Wisdom and Riches a Vision: 476
• Mediocrity of Fortune to be preferred: 479
• Means of strengthening Faith: 482
• On Benevolence in official Situations: 486
• CriticismSpecimen of various Readings: 488
• 26: 491
• On Religious Hope: 493
• On asking Advice in affairs of Love: 494
• On Method in Writing and ConversationCharacters of Tom Puzzle and Will Dry: 497
• Letter on Gardening: 499
• Opinions on the Dispute between Count Rechteren and M Mesnager: 503
• Letters from Henpeckt Husbandsfrom a Woman married to a Cotquean: 506
• On attributing our Neighbours Misfortunes to Judg ments: 508

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator [no. 162-483; Bohn's British classics; Volume 3 of The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Joseph Addison
• Author: Joseph Addison
• Editors: Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn
• Publisher: H. G. Bohn, 1865
• Original from: Ghent University
• Digitized: Jun 16, 2008
• Length: 8 pages