The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.
Joseph AddisonIt is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.
Joseph AddisonIt must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
Joseph Addison