 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 862 страници
...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, schools and...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 136 страници
...assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee-houses. I would therefore in a very particular manner recommend nay speculations to all well-regulated families that set apart an hour in every morning for tea and bread-and-butter; and would earnestly advise them, for their good, to order this paper to be punctually... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 страници
...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...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses". His essays are, directly or indirectly, moral — rules of propriety, precepts on when to speak, when... | |
 | John Earle - 1880 - 766 страници
...libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea tables and in coffee houses. I would, therefore, in a very particular manner, recommend...well-regulated families, that set apart an hour in everv morning for tea and bread-and-butter : and would earnestly advise them t^r their good to order... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1880 - 228 страници
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 150 страници
...brought philosophy 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...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... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 страници
...champion of all that is easy, natural, superficial." And it is but fair to say, that if, as he boasted, he brought " Philosophy out of closets and libraries,...to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee-houses," it certainly was Philosophy in a very diluted form. But in a periodical such as the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1882 - 428 страници
...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...tea-tables and in coffee-houses. I would therefore,' he ends with a smile, ' recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated assemblies that set apart... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 страници
...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 страници
...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,... | |
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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,... 
