Essays and Tales

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Джозеф Аддисон. Essays and Tales

INTRODUCTION

PUBLIC CREDIT

HOUSEHOLD SUPERSTITIONS

OPERA LIONS

WOMEN AND WIVES

THE ITALIAN OPERA

LAMPOONS

TRUE AND FALSE HUMOUR

SA GA YEAN QUA RASH TOW’S IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON

THE VISION OF MARRATON

SIX PAPERS ON WIT

First Paper

Second Paper

Third Paper

Fourth Paper

Fifth Paper

Sixth Paper

FRIENDSHIP

CHEVY-CHASE

Part One

Part Two

A DREAM OF THE PAINTERS

SPARE TIME

Part One

Part Two

CENSURE

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

THE VISION OF MIRZA

GENIUS

THEODOSIUS AND CONSTANTIA

GOOD NATURE

Part One

Part Two

A GRINNING MATCH

TRUST IN GOD

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In one of my rambles, or rather speculations, I looked into the great hall where the bank is kept, and was not a little pleased to see the directors, secretaries, and clerks, with all the other members of that wealthy corporation, ranged in their several stations, according to the parts they act in that just and regular economy.  This revived in my memory the many discourses which I had both read and heard concerning the decay of public credit, with the methods of restoring it; and which, in my opinion, have always been defective, because they have always been made with an eye to separate interests and party principles.

The thoughts of the day gave my mind employment for the whole night; so that I fell insensibly into a kind of methodical dream, which disposed all my contemplations into a vision, or allegory, or what else the reader shall please to call it.

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The reader will easily suppose, by what has been before said, that the lady on the throne would have been almost frighted to distraction, had she seen but any one of the spectres: what then must have been her condition when she saw them all in a body?  She fainted, and died away at the sight.

There was as great a change in the hill of money-bags and the heaps of money, the former shrinking and falling into so many empty bags, that I now found not above a tenth part of them had been filled with money.

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