 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 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 coffeehouses." "Addison, appearing at a time when English literature was at a very low ebb, made an impression which... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pàgines
...anioiii: men: and I shall he ambition* to have it said or me, that I have bn>ii<rht Philosophy ont of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tra-tubk'tt, and in coffee-houses.' His essays are, directly or indirectly, moral — rules of propriety,... | |
 | Albert Hamann - 1883 - 62 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." The Spectator, the most celebrated of all journals, appeared daily from the 1st of March 1711 to the... | |
 | Kerry S. Walters - 1999 - 236 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." 44 Passages such as this were music to Franklin's ears. Like all autodidacts, he was insecure about... | |
 | Isobel Grundy - 1999 - 718 pàgines
...Fontenelle's influential Pluralite des mondes. This project recalled Addison's Spectator design of bringing 'Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools...dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses'.2 It was bound to appeal to Lady Mary. Algarotti was, in time, to acquire a name as a... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 pàgines
...were a combination of sharp, witty observation and reflections on social and moral issues, designed to "bring philosophy out of closets and libraries,...dwell in clubs, and assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses."9 Though the Spectator lasted for only two years, it was frequently reprinted through... | |
 | David Glover, Cora Kaplan - 2000 - 226 pàgines
...1711, Joseph Addison declared that he would be pleased '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' (Steele and Addison 1982: 210). His twelve essays on 'The Pleasures of the Imagination' which appeared... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 pàgines
...ofjoseph Addison (1672-1719) and Richard Steele (1672-1729), whose Tatler and Spectator papers "brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and...to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and Coffee-Houses" (Addison's Spectator no. 10, 1 144). 15 Hume announced Addisonian aspirations in his... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pàgines
...the persona of the thinker, signalled by Adam Smith's remark about the trade of thinking. Proposing to bring 'Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries,...dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee Houses', Joseph Addison, the first great media man, sought to turn the philosopher into a man... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2001 - 340 pàgines
...just Signification, is but To carry Good-Breeding a step higher'. 77 Proposing, through The Spectator, to bring 'Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries,...dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee Houses', Joseph Addison, the first great media man, thus sought to turn the philosopher into... | |
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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,... 
