British Essayist Sir Richard

and his fellows really deal with is the least transitory aspects of life, though still merely aspects--those points in which all human nature, great or little, finds what it has in common, and directly shows itself up.

had spoken of Edward, increased her curiosity; for it struck her as being rather ill-natured, and suggested the suspicion of that lady's knowing, or fancying herself to know something to his disadvantage.

He sends a special despatch to her for no other purpose than to tell her she has nothing to do but be a darling.

He sends her as many as a dozen letters in the course of his journey to Edinburgh; and when, on his return, illness keeps them apart, one in London, the other at Hampton Court, her happening to call him 'Good Dick,' puts him in so much rapture, that he tells her he could almost forget his miserable gout and lameness, and walk down to her." Mrs.

He was also appointed secretary to Lord Cutts, his commanding officer.

In 1701 he astonished his gay companions by the publication of a little book, The Christian Hero, designed to prove that "no principles but those of religion are sufficient to make a great man." The contrast between its precepts and the author's free-and-easy life was too great to escape general notice, and he was subjected to much raillery by his companions.There he formed an intimacy with Addison, who was one year his junior.In 1689 he matriculated at Oxford; but left without taking his degree.In the following year he published his first comedy, The Funeral, and soon afterwards The Tender Husband.It has been remarked that "they were the first that were written expressly with a view, not to imitate the manners, but to reform the morals of the age.. It is almost a misnomer to call them comedies; they are rather homilies in dialogue." On the advent to power of his friends, the Whigs, in Queen Anne's reign, he was appointed (May 1707), chiefly through Addison's influence, editor of the Gazette, and one of the gentlemen ushers of the Prince Consort.Steele was often sorely tried by his irregularities, extravagance, and convivial habits; and although considered by some of his friends stiff and prudish, she was acknowledged by all to be good-hearted, forbearing, and true.She even took to her home and heart Steele's illegitimate daughter, of whose existence, prior to her marriage, she had been ignorant.Common types of primary sources include works of literature, historical documents, original philosophical writings, and religious texts.A primary source is a work that is being studied, or that provides first-hand or direct evidence on a topic.On the 7th September 1707 he married his second wife, Miss Scurlock, of Llangunnor, in Caermarthenshire, a lady of great personal attractions, and possessed of an estate of about £400 a year.Steele continued devotedly attached to her through life. Forster says: "He writes to her on the way to the Kit-Kat, in waiting on my Lord Wharton or the Duke of Newcastle.