Excerpt from The Addisonian Miscellany: Being a Selection of Valuable Pieces, From Those Justly Celebrated and Classic Works, the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian; To Which Is Prefixed, the Life of Joseph Addison, Esq. He was made fecretary of fiate, in 171 7 but it is generally allowfied that he was not well calculated for that fiatipn being no orator, he could not harangue in the houfe of commons in defence of the govern ment. He foon relinquifhed this office, and obtained a penfion of 15001 per annum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.