PARIS, PRINTED FOR BAUDRY, ENGLISH, ITALIAN, SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND GERMAN LIBRARY, RUE DU COQ-SAINT-HONORE. The author of this tragedy, to whose vigorous mind the English are indebted for their choicest moral works, came into the world with a frame so weak, that he was christened immediately on his birth, in consequence of the symptoms he gave of a speedy dissolution. The hand which reared him did a more than ordinary service to the age in which he lived, and to succeeding generations. Addison's pious writings, untainted by the rigour of superstition, have softened the harsh spirit of ancient religion, whilst they have confirmed all its principles.…
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