Excerpt from The Life of Joseph Addison, Esq.: Extracted From No. III and IV, of the General Dictionary, Historical and Critical; To Which Is Prefixed, the Life of Dr. Lancelot Addison, Dean of Litchfield, His Father Tho' we confidered the pamphlet, eh titled, tbe Spefiator, as a very contempti c, we yet thought it would be proper to inform our readers, that fo incomparable a {cries of writ ings as the Speéfator, had been attack'd with virulent but impotent malice, by an obfcore, anonymous writer, and to give a fpecimen of his genius. The fame we obferve of many Other authors, fomething above the rank of pamphle teers, from whofe Works we have ex traéted feveral things of a peculiarly infipid kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.