Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… urbane, polite, progressive and Whig. For these reasons, he has sometimes been misunderstood as a proponent of ‘middle class’ or ‘bourgeois’ ideology. 4 Such terms were foreign to Addison’s vocabulary, but he did believe that commerce had …
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