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Show WHO SAID t "There Is mi virtiu- so truly great and godlike as Justice." These are the words of Joseph Ad dison, the noted English essayist. In pa.-sing. it may be remarked that Addison Ad-dison was of a somewhat stern disposition dispo-sition and he undoubtedly was an advocate ad-vocate of Inexorable Justice tempered with little leniency. Addison was the son of a British clergyman. He was born In 167L'. He early became acquainted with Richard Rich-ard Steele, the essayist and this friendship was continued through their studies at Oxford In their later llterarv work these two men were verv I l . 1 .11.1 r lose irienus aim oiu niucn i ineir work In the light of the others Criticism Criti-cism ami advice. Addison was fortunate as a young man In tho matter of securing a patron, pa-tron, it was the custom in England for a young man who desired to Wrltl to secure the pajtronage of some acknowledged ac-knowledged writer and in this wa the new writer's personal fortunes were rapidly advanced. The famous poet, John Dryden, became the patron pa-tron of Addison and this gave tl young man a start which few of his fellow writers of the day enjoyed A friend of Addison's procured a pension of 300 pounds a j ear for him and with this money the essayist was enabled to prepare himself for the diplomatic service through travel. In-'l-r William 111 Addison enjoyed man" political appointments but on thr death of the king his friends were sot well received at court anel he was I thrown on his own resources His poem on the Battle of Blenheim, however, how-ever, won him much pralso and secured se-cured him the position of commissioner commis-sioner of appeal on excise Addison died June 17. 171! Wayne I. Mc-Mui Mc-Mui ray. |