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Addison

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Addison, village (1990 pop. 32,058), Du Page co., NE Ill.; inc. 1884. An industrial suburb of Chicago, it manufactures machinery and plastic items.
Addison
Joseph. 1672--1719, English essayist and poet who, with Richard Steele, founded The Spectator (1711--14) and contributed most of its essays, including the de Coverley Papers


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Difficulties, improbabilities, nay, impossibilities, are quite overlooked by it; so that to any man extremely in love, may be applied what Addison says of Caesar,
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Spectator' then, and was constantly in the company of Addison, and Steele, and Swift, and Pope, and all the wits at Will's, who are presented evanescently in the romance.
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Addison Porter, the secretary to the President, and explained to him my mission.
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