Rhetoric
, iii. ch. II, where he cites such verbal jokes as, You wish him
(i.e. to side with Persia—to ruin him), and the saying of Isocrates concerning Athens, that its sovereignty
was to the city a beginning
of evils. As this closes Addison's comparison of Milton's practice with Aristotle's doctrine (the following papers being expressions of his personal appreciation of the several books of