Epistles
; showing how it would read in the customary prose form of a letter of introduction.
| [No. 494] | Friday, September 26, 1712 | Addison |
Ægritudinem laudare, unam rem maximè detestabilem, quorum est tandem Philosophorum?
Cic.
About an Age ago it was the fashion in
England
, for every one that would be thought religious, to throw as much Sanctity as possible into his Face, and in particular to abstain from all Appearances of Mirth and Pleasantry, which were looked upon as the Marks of a Carnal Mind. The Saint was of a sorrowful Countenance, and generally eaten up with Spleen and Melancholy. A