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| [No. 535] | Thursday, November 13, 1712 | Addison |
Spem longam reseces—
Hor.
My
[Four Hundred and Seventy First Speculation]
turned upon the Subject of Hope in general. I design this Paper as a Speculation upon that vain and foolish Hope, which is misemployed on Temporal Objects, and produces many Sorrows and Calamities in human Life.
It is a Precept several times inculcated by
Horace