Ignatius Sancho vs. Joseph Addison
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Ignatius Sancho
1729 – 1780
Charles Ignatius Sancho was a British abolitionist, writer and composer. Considered to have been born on a British slave ship in the Atlantic, Sancho was sold by the British slave traders into slavery in the Spanish Viceroyalty New Granada. After his parents died, Sancho's owner took the two-year-old orphan to Britain and gave him to three sisters living in Greenwich, where he remained for eighteen years.
"Old folks love to seem wise- and if you are silly enough to correspond with grey hairs, take the consequence."
Joseph Addison
1672 – 1719
Joseph Addison was a British writer and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.
"Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another."