The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . N°i. Friday, December 23. 1715. Rara temporum felicit as, ubi /entire qua veils, et quce fentias dicere licet. H E arguments of an Author lofe a great deal of theirweight, when we are perfuaded that he only writes forarguments fake, and has no real concern in the caufewhich he efpoufes. This is the cafe of one, who drawshis pen in the defence of property, without having any;except, perhaps, in the copy of a libel, or a ballad. Oneis apt to fufpecl, that the paffion for liberty, which ap-pears in a grub-ftreet patriot, arifes
The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . N°i. Friday, December 23. 1715. Rara temporum felicit as, ubi /entire qua veils, et quce fentias dicere licet. H E arguments of an Author lofe a great deal of theirweight, when we are perfuaded that he only writes forarguments fake, and has no real concern in the caufewhich he efpoufes. This is the cafe of one, who drawshis pen in the defence of property, without having any;except, perhaps, in the copy of a libel, or a ballad. Oneis apt to fufpecl, that the paffion for liberty, which ap-pears in a grub-ftreet patriot, arifes only from his apprehenfions of a goal;and that, whatever he may pretend, he does not write to fecure, but to getfomething of his own. Should the Government be overturned, he has no-thing to lofe but an old ftandifh. I queftion not but the Reader will conceive a refpect for the Author of thispaper, from the title of it; fince, he may be fure, I am fo confiderable aman, that I cannot have lefs than forty (hillings a year. I have rather chofen this title than any other, becaufc it is what I moftglory in, and what moft effectually calls to my mind the happinefs of thatGovernme
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