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Joseph Addison ( 1672-05-01 - 1719-06-17 ) was an English politician and writer. His name is often remembered in tandem with that of his friend, Richard Steele , with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Campaign (1704)...


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Name: Joseph Addison
Birth Date: May 1, 1672
Death Date: June 17, 1719
Place of Birth: Milston, Wiltshire, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: politician, essayist, writer

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The English essayist and politician Joseph Addison (1672-1719) founded the "Spectator" periodical with Sir Richard Steele. Joseph Addison was born on May 1, 1672, the son of the rector of Milston, Wiltshire. He was educated at the Charterhouse, an...
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Nathan Drake keened in 1805 that Joseph Addison for all his literary achievement and "moral dominion" frustrated biographers, who stood helpless before his reticence and distrust of self-revelation. Time and scholarship have not made the private...


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Addison, Joseph (1672–1719) Summary
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Addison, Joseph(1672–1719) Joseph Addison—Oxford scholar, poet, playwright, essayist, and politician—figures in the history of philosophy chiefly on the strength of his Essay on the Pleasures of the Imagination, published in 1712 as...
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Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719) was an English essayist, poet and man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison, later dean of Lichfield. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with...


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Spectator 495: Addison and "the race of people called Jews." (Joseph Addison)
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The immigration of Jews and the social implications of the diaspora is depicted in Joseph Addison's 'Spectator' from Sep 17, 1712. Although Jews were not as powerful and influential in Addison's time as they are in the modern era, Addison was perceptive enough to...
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Addison's "Campaign" and Gray's "Elegy".(Joseph Addison)(Thomas Gray)
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In the meditation set at the heart of the "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," which he completed in 1750, Gray notes that deprivation curtails opportunities for evil as well as for good. Chief amongst these is violent individual ambition, which Gray deplores (in...
 


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