Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… the manners of both sexes. He thought that ‘women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blow up in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord’ ( The Spectator , n° 57, 5 May 1711). In this way, Addison’s …
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