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    Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 May 1719) was a British writer and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered...
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    Addison is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The town was named after English author Joseph Addison. The population was 1,148 as of the...
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    Joseph Addison Alexander (April 24, 1809 – January 28, 1860) was an American clergyman and biblical scholar. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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  • Joseph Addison (1672–1719) was an English politician and writer. Joseph Addison may also refer to: Joseph Addison (diplomat) (1879–1953), British ambassador...
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    Addison is a town in Steuben County, New York. The population was 2,397 at the 2020 census. The name was selected to honor the author Joseph Addison. An...
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    death in 1701, and in 1716 remarried to the celebrated writer Joseph Addison. Addison lived at Holland House after his marriage, which was not a happy...
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  • Sir Joseph Addison KCMG (1879 – 24 November 1953) was a British ambassador to the Baltic States, and to Czechoslovakia during the rise of Nazi Germany...
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    The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England, lasting from 1711 to 1712. Each "paper", or "number", was...
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    as his personal background. Joseph Addison had married Sarah Shaw, and gone into the Shaw family business. Thomas Addison attended the Long Benton parish...
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    Alexander Pope (redirect from Mr Joseph Gay)
    writers Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. In March 1713, Windsor Forest was published to great acclaim. During Pope's friendship with Joseph Addison, he...
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  • a wish for their wedding day. A much earlier reference is found in Joseph Addison's newspaper The Freeholder: The usual Salutation to a Man upon his Birth-day...
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  • Addison Timlin (born June 29, 1991) is an American actress. She played Jami Lerner in The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014), Colleen Lunsford in Little...
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  • meetings of the club; the pie is thus itself sometimes regarded (e.g., by Joseph Addison in The Spectator) as the origin of the club's name. It is possible that...
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    census. The village and the surrounding town are named after the author Joseph Addison. The village was first incorporated in 1854 and re-incorporated in 1873...
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    has drawn criticism from notable figures, including T. S. Eliot and Joseph Addison. According to some scholars, Milton was second in influence to none...
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    co-founder of the magazine The Spectator alongside his close friend Joseph Addison. Steele was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1671 to Richard Steele, a wealthy...
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    Tower and Magdalen Bridge from along the walk. The walk is named after Joseph Addison (1672–1719), a Fellow of the college from 1698 to 1711, who enjoyed...
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    William Joseph Addison (born 20 August 1992) is an English-born Irish rugby union player who plays as a utility back for Premiership Rugby club Sale Sharks...
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  • (born 1629) 1696 – John III Sobieski, Polish king (born 1629) 1719 – Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician (born 1672) 1734...
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    animated with a sublime Celestial Spirit...." (Part III, sec. 1, 373). Joseph Addison embarked on the Grand Tour in 1699 and commented in Remarks on Several...
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    Pope (who wrote the epitaph on his monument in Westminster Abbey), Joseph Addison and John Gay. James Craggs left an illegitimate daughter, Harriot Craggs...
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    chartered on October 14, 1761. Benning Wentworth named the town Addison after poet Joseph Addison. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has...
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    dissertations, critical hermeneutical and historical, J. Murphy, 1853, p. 132 Joseph Addison Alexander, Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah (1878), p. 65. Rabbi...
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  • things with an attitude of humor. Poet, playwright, and philosopher Joseph Addison said that being serious is dull, "we are growing serious, and let me...
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    In 1711 the poet Joseph Addison mentioned exercising with a "dumb bell" in an essay published in The Spectator. Although Addison elsewhere in the same...
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  • the essayist Joseph Addison (1672–1719, eldest child), Gulston Addison, who became Governor of Madras, and the scholar Lancelot Addison (1680–1710), and...
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  • included were: Joseph Addison Matthew Arnold John Austin William Baldwin Barnabe Barnes William Barnes Richard Baxter Joseph Beaumont Joseph Hilaire Belloc...
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    Pope. Philips was a staunch Whig, and a friend of Richard Steele and Joseph Addison. In Nos. 22, 23, 30 and 32 (1713) of The Guardian he was rashly praised...
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    HarperCollins. Retrieved 2025-04-12. Addison, Joseph (1891). The Works of Joseph Addison. W. W. Gibbings. p. 283. Addison, Joseph (2004). "No. 102 Wednesday, June...
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    century, the tune was licensed in 1624 and again in 1675. In 1711, Joseph Addison wrote in The Spectator: The old song of "Chevy-Chase" is the favourite...
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