Essays and Tales
, by Addison, Joseph- ISBN: 9781426408311 | 1426408315
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/11/2007
From the chapter Public Credit: Methoughts I returned to the great hall, where I had been the morning before; but to my surprise, instead of the company that I left there, I saw, towards the upper end of the hall, a beautiful virgin, seated on a throne of gold. Her name, as they told me, was Public Credit.