 | Joseph Addison - 1882 - 428 страници
...with a smile, ' recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated assemblies that set apart one hour in every morning for tea and bread and butter, and would heartily advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1883 - 516 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...coffee-houses. I would therefore in a very particular maimer recommend those my speculations to all well regulated families that sed apart au hour in every... | |
 | Albert Hamann - 1883 - 62 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...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... | |
 | David Glover, Cora Kaplan - 2000 - 212 страници
...The Spectator in March 1711, Joseph Addison declared that he would be pleased 'to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets 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 страници
...essays ofjoseph Addison (1672-1719) and Richard Steele (1672-1729), whose Tatler and Spectator papers "brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries,...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... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 страници
...combination of sharp, witty observation and reflections on social and moral issues, designed to "bring philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and...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... | |
 | Mark Kingwell - 2001 - 286 страници
...continues in a vein Montaigne would have found congenial: "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." The governing conceit in Addison's public-spirited philosophy of manners is an awareness, derived from... | |
 | Elizabeth Eger - 2001 - 348 страници
...corrupt public culture. Mr Spectator famously declared: 'I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and...dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee-houses.'8 The coffee-house plays a significant role in The Spectator's project, not only as... | |
 | Joseph Marino, Melinda Wilcox Schlitt - 2001 - 540 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...to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at TeaTables, and Coffee- Houses.8 The Addison passage makes explicit a point that is implicit in the passage cited from... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2001 - 340 страници
...Signification, is but To carry Good-Breeding a step higher'. 77 Proposing, through The Spectator, to bring 'Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools...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,... 
