The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . pon me the raillery of the town, and be treated to the tune of the marriage-hater matched; but I am prepared for it. I have been as witty up- on others in my time. To tell thee truly, I faw fuch a tribe of fafhionable young fluttering coxcombs fhot up, that I did not think my poft of an Homme de ruelle any longer tenable. I felt a certain ftiffnefs in my limbs, which entirely deftroyed that jauntynefs of air I was once mafter of. Befides, for I may now confefs my age to thee, I have been eight and forty above thefe twelve years. Sinc
The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . pon me the raillery of the town, and be treated to the tune of the marriage-hater matched; but I am prepared for it. I have been as witty up- on others in my time. To tell thee truly, I faw fuch a tribe of fafhionable young fluttering coxcombs fhot up, that I did not think my poft of an Homme de ruelle any longer tenable. I felt a certain ftiffnefs in my limbs, which entirely deftroyed that jauntynefs of air I was once mafter of. Befides, for I may now confefs my age to thee, I have been eight and forty above thefe twelve years. Since my retirement into the country will make a vacancy in the Club, I could wifh you would fill up my place with my friend Tom Dapperwit. He has an infinite deal of fire, and knows the town. For my own part, as I have faid before, I fhall endeavour to live hereafter fuitable to a man in my ftation, as a prudent head- of a family, a good husband, a careful father (when it fhall fo happen,) and as Tour mojl Jincere friend and humble Jervant, William Saturdayt Nj3t- The S P E CTATO R. 27 N°5 3i. Saturday, November 8. Qui mare et terras variifque mundum Temperat Boris :Unde nil majus generatur ipfo,Nee viget quicquam jimile aut fecundum. Hor. SIMONIDES being asked by Dionyftus the tyrant what God was, de-fired a days time to confider of it before he made his reply. Whenthe day was expired, he defired two days; and afterwards, inftead ofreturning his anfwer, demanded ftill double the time to confider of it. Thisgreat Poet and Philofopher, the more he contemplated the nature of theDeity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth ; and that he lofthimfelf in the thought, inftead of finding an end* of it. If we confider the idea which wife men, by the light of reafon, haveframed of the Divine Being, it amounts to This; that he has in him all theperfection of a fpiritual nature; and fince we have no notion of any kind offpiritual perfection but what we difcover in our
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