Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions’, he declared ( The Spectator , n° 15, 17 March 1711). 5 . James …
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