 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1876 - 180 pàgines
...classes and crept down to the country ; the latter popularized religion. " I have brought," he says, " philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.' The next important series was Johnson's Rambler (1750-2) and Idler, but in them lightness, the essence... | |
 | R Roach Pittis - 424 pàgines
...very "streets and drawing rooms" of the London of Queen Anne. Addison brought, as he himself said, " Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea tables and in coffee houses." But outside of the Tatler and the Spectator we had the robust wit... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 862 pàgines
...short papers, appearing at stated intervale, and sold at a cheap rate. The object of the writers was ' to bring philosophy out of closets and libraries,...dwell in clubs, and assemblies, at tea-tables and at coffee-houses.' The Spectator was planned by Addison in concert with Sir Richard Steele, and its... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1878 - 518 pàgines
...from Heaven, to inhabit among men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and...and assemblies, at teatables and in coffee-houses. I would therefore in a very particular manner recommend those my speculations to all well regulated... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 pàgines
...down from heaven, to inhabit among men. I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and...to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee-houses. I would therefore in a very particular manner recommend my speculations to all well-regulated... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pàgines
...from heaven to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses". His essays are, directly or indirectly, moral — rules of propriety, precepts on when to speak, when... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1880 - 228 pàgines
...classes and crept down to the country ; the latter popularized religion. " I have brought," he says, " philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.' The next important series was Johnson's Rambler (1750-2) and Idler, but in diem lightness, the essence... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 pàgines
...these periodicals was " to banish vice and ignorance out of the territories of Great Britain," and " to bring philosophy out of closets and libraries,...to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee-houses." The minor immoralities that he attacked were such as affectation, presumption, foppery,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 150 pàgines
...down from heaven, to inhabit among men. I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and...to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee-houses. I would therefore in a very particular mannev recommend my speculations to all well-regulated... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1882 - 428 pàgines
...from heaven to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses. I would therefore,' he ends with a smile, ' recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated assemblies... | |
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It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies,... 
