"I might here mention the Effects which this has upon all the Faculties of the Mind, by keeping the Understanding clear, the Imagination untroubled, and refining those Spirits that are necessary for the proper Exertion of our intellectual Faculties, during the present Laws of Union between Soul and Body."
Spectator, No. 115
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By Steele, Addison, Budgell and others, <u>The Spectator</u> (London: Printed for Sam. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little Britain; and sold by A[nn]. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane, 1711-1714). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/P1724">Link to ESTC</a>&gt; -- No. 1 (Thursday, March 1. 1711) through No. 555 (Saturday, December 6. 1712); 2nd series, No. 556 (Friday, June 18. 1714), ceased with No. 635 (20 Dec. 1714).<br>
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Some text from <u>The Spectator</u>, 3 vols. Ed. Henry Morley (London: George Routledge, 1891). &lt;<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12030/12030-h/12030-h/12030-h.htm">Link to PGDP edition</a>&gt;<br><br>
Reading in Donald Bond's edition: <u>The Spectator</u>, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965).