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Spectator, The

American  

noun

  1. a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.


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Konczal takes a hard look at a new Wallison article in American Spectator: "The True Story of the Financial Crisis."

From Salon • May 18, 2011

Said the Spectator: "The present law on this point is utterly irrational and illogical."

From Time Magazine Archive

Southcote, Joanna, 220 Southey, 232, 244, 361; Hazlitt on, 10 and note, 16 Spectator, The, 293 Speed’s edition of K., xiii. and note Spelling tricks, K.’s, not followed in this edition, xiv.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

He was a constant contributor of prose and verse to the Spectator, The Athenaeum, John Bull, and Punch, and took a leading part in the revival of Irish letters.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

It is in this character that Addison presents himself in his numerous contributions to The Spectator, The Tatler, and The Guardian.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

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