...and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's. In short, wherever I see a cluster of people, I always mix with them, though...myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part in life. I am very well versed in the theory...

...Addison, in the first issue of The Spectator on March 1, 1711, had his Spectator introduce himself ("Thus I live in the world, rather as a spectator of mankind, than as one of the species"), he gave him a squirearchical background: "I was born to a small hereditary estate, which according...

...candidates to gather the meaning; second, to enable them to write from dictation; third, for review. 1. (a) I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind...myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part in life. I am very well versed in the theory...

...had been open again for fifty years. Thus in writing under the title of The Spectator and declaring, "I live in the World, rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species," 1 Joseph Addison was situating himself within a familiar frame of reference. He was assuming an eighteenth-century...

...'Spectator' himself is an instance of that antiseptic regard which is often coated in exoticism (' Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of its species', Spectator no. i). The trail can even be followed back, in that case, to one of the Grub...

...of himself. In "The Spectator's Account of Himself," the first number of the Spectator, he writes: Thus I live in the World, rather as a Spectator of...as one of the Species; by which means I have made my self a Speculative Statesman, Soldier, Merchant, and Artizan, without ever meddling with any Practical...

...religion, in moral philosophy. Joseph Addison had helped make it so as 'the spectator' in The Spectator. 'I live in the World rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species.' 'I have acted all the Parts of my life as a Looker-On.' Irony was the enlightened's trope, the spectator's...

...the period, Addison and Steele's Spectator Papers. Mr. Spectator describes himself as "a Looker-on"; "I live in the World, rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species" (1:199). 8 It is this distance as audience rather than as actor which enables his objectivity: "I have...

...religion, in moral philosophy. Joseph Addison had helped make it so as "The Spectator" in The Spectator. "I live in the World rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species." "I have acted all the Parts of my life as a Looker-On." Irony was the enlightened's trope, the spectator's...

...speech because he does not want to be looked at. He exercises influence by hints and example. He lives 'in the world rather as a spectator of mankind, than as one of the species'. The Smithian spectator is a highly articulated member of the species who is ever in dialogue with other...