Quotes:Addison, Joseph

Zirkoff, Boris

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719). Passage has not been identified.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, p. 563

Addison, Joseph. English essayist, poet and politician, b. in his father’s rectory of Milston in Wiltshire, May 1, 1672; d. June 17, 1719. After attending several schools, entered Queen’s College, Oxford, at the age of fifteen. Most skilful in writing Latin poems for which he received various distinctions. Travelled on the Continent, 1699-1703. The next ten years of his life were spent in government service and in writing various essays in 411 defence of the Whigs. He is best known for his daily paper called the Spectator, which ran for about two years and in which he wrote a large number of essays in faultless English. On the accession of George I, Addison was appointed secretary to the lords justices entrusted provisionally with the conduct of the government; he then became chief secretary for Ireland. He was later one of the commissioners for trade and the colonies.

A complete edition of Addison’s works is included in Bohn’s British Classics. It is not definitely known what particular essay or article of Addison’s H. P. B. quotes from.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 10, pp. 410-411