Posted as if from Shati'Tea And Falafel Shop, in front of Mukhayyam Shati, Coastal Refugee Camp, Gaza. Since Addison here speaks with considerable learning, regarding the Greeks, it is representative of the discussion at Shati', which really is a center of learned discussion, with a tradition going back to the most ancient history, in the Neolithic period and later in the Byzantine, when Gaza was the home to the most important Law and Theology school in the Mediterranean.
Your humble,
faithful,
servant, 3011
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No. 238. Monday, December 3, 1711. Steele.
Nequicquam populo bibulas donaveris Aures;
Respue quod non es.
Persius, Sat. 4.
Among all the Diseases of the Mind, there is not one more epidemical or
more pernicious than the Love of Flattery. For as where the Juices of
the Body are prepared to receive a malignant Influence, there the
Disease rages with most Violence; so in this Distemper of the Mind,
where there is ever a Propensity and Inclination to suck in the Poison,
it cannot be but that the whole Order of reasonable Action must be
overturn'd, for, like Musick, it
--So softens and disarms the Mind,
That not one Arrow can Resistance find.
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