The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . nceAddison left the Charter House Schooland went up to Oxford to make a bril-liant reputation there. Of late he hasbeen traveling on the continent, and hasjust returned, with very little money inhis pocket. It is said he lives quietlyup three flights of stairs in a lodging notfar from Charing Cross; but that is notthe best
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . nceAddison left the Charter House Schooland went up to Oxford to make a bril-liant reputation there. Of late he hasbeen traveling on the continent, and hasjust returned, with very little money inhis pocket. It is said he lives quietlyup three flights of stairs in a lodging notfar from Charing Cross; but that is notthe best place to hunt him up. At the Kit-Kat Club he will be found in all hisglory, the center of an admiring circle offriends. Christopher Catts coffee andmutton pies are famous, and haveattracted a number of Whig politiciansand literary men. The great booksellerof the time, Jacob Tonson, was founderof the club, and among its members arethe Maecenas of his time, the courtlyEarl of Halifax, as well as other nota-bilities. That short-faced man in thecorner, with the genial presence, isJoseph Addison, whose able pen will,in a year or two, make him secretary ofstate. At present he has the reputationof being the ablest Oxford graduate of 24 The Illustrated History ok THE TOWER OF LONDON. his time. Look well at him, ladies, forit is he who, in the Spectator, will pre-sent a new and higher ideal of womanto the public, as one who adds grace,charity, and refinement to domestic is an age of societies, for now thatthe army has become a profession, andits officers hold the queens commission,ordinary men have leisure for quietdiscussion. We have seen Sir IsaacNewton presiding over a scientificsociety,and Addison shining in a literary-political society among the titled and thegreat. Let us now cross the river fromWestminster to Lambeth Palace, andattend the sederunt of a religioussociety. The noble old pile, where thearchbishop, like his predecessors forcenturies, has his offici
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