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Joseph Addison
(1 May 1672 - 17 Jun 1719)
English essayist and poet whose writings were published in the Tatler, a magazine edited by his friend Sir Richard Steele (1709-11) and then the daily Spectator (1711-12) which he co-founded with Steele. They wrote most of the content of its 555 issues, intent upon bringing 'Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee-Houses.'
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Science Quotes by Joseph Addison (4)
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
— Joseph Addison
The Spectator (24 May 1712), 5, No. 387. In The Works of Joseph Addison editted by George Washington Greene (1883), Vol. 6, 285.
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Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.
— Joseph Addison
The Spectator (21 Jun 1712), 4, No. 411. In The Works of Joseph Addison editted by George Washington Greene (1883), Vol. 6, 322.
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
— Joseph Addison
The Spectator (13 Oct 1711), 3, No. 195. In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 348:16.
The Spacious Firmament on high,
With all the blue Etherial Sky,
And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame, Their great Original proclaim:
Th'unwearied Sun, from day to day
Does his Creator's Pow'r display,
And publishes to every Land
The Work of an Almighty Hand.
Soon as the Evening Shades prevail,
The Moon takes up the wondrous Tale,
And nightly to the listning Earth Repeats the Story of her Birth:
Whilst all the Stars that round her burn,
And all the Planets, in their turn,
Confirm the Tidings as they rowl,
And spread the Truth from Pole to Pole.
What though, in solemn Silence, all
Move round the dark terrestrial Ball?
What tho' nor real Voice nor Sound
Amid their radiant Orbs be found?
In Reason's Ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious Voice,
For ever singing, as they shine,
'The Hand that made us is Divine'.
With all the blue Etherial Sky,
And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame, Their great Original proclaim:
Th'unwearied Sun, from day to day
Does his Creator's Pow'r display,
And publishes to every Land
The Work of an Almighty Hand.
Soon as the Evening Shades prevail,
The Moon takes up the wondrous Tale,
And nightly to the listning Earth Repeats the Story of her Birth:
Whilst all the Stars that round her burn,
And all the Planets, in their turn,
Confirm the Tidings as they rowl,
And spread the Truth from Pole to Pole.
What though, in solemn Silence, all
Move round the dark terrestrial Ball?
What tho' nor real Voice nor Sound
Amid their radiant Orbs be found?
In Reason's Ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious Voice,
For ever singing, as they shine,
'The Hand that made us is Divine'.
— Joseph Addison
The Spectator, no. 465, Saturday 23 August 1712. In D. F. Bond (ed.) The Spectator (1965), Vol. 4, 144-5.
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