| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 էջ
...overlooked by graver writers, and more bulky theorists : or, in the language of Addison, ' to bring philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses.' Of the origin of this species of writing Dr. JOHNSON has given a sketch which it were to be wished... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 370 էջ
...that desperate state of vice and folly, into which the age is fallen. The mind that lies fallow for a single day, sprouts up in follies that are only...particular manner recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated families, and set apart an hour in every morning for tea and bread and butter; and would... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 332 էջ
...Socrates was said to have brought philosophy down from heaven to inhabit among men : ' And 1,' says he, ' shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses.' Learning has been divested of the peculiarities of a college dress, that she might mix in polite assemblies,... | |
| John Walker - 1822 - 404 էջ
...Let us take another example : It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven 10 inhabit among men; and I shall be ambitious to have...dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in cofiec-houses. Spectator, JVo. 10. When this sentence is properly read, every ear will perceive a peculiar... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 884 էջ
...shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if possible, both ways find their account in the speculation...particular manner recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated families, that set apart an hour in every morning for tea and bread and butter ; and... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 356 էջ
...that desperate state of vice and folly, into which the age is fallen. The mind that lies fallow for a single day, sprouts up in follies that are only...particular manner recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated families, that set apart an hour in every morning for tea and bread and butter ; and... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 632 էջ
...that desperate state of vice and folly, into which the age is fallen. The mind that lies fallow for a single day, sprouts up in follies that are only...particular manner recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated families, that set apart an hour in every morning for tea and bread and butter ; and... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 450 էջ
...that desperate state of vice and folly, into which the agpe is fallen. The mind that lies fallow for a single day, sprouts up in follies that are only...and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at teatable, and in coffee-houses. I would therefore in a very particular manner recommendthese my speculations... | |
| John Walker - 1823 - 406 էջ
...gradually into the cadence, and have passed from age to age to our own days. Let us take another example : It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses. Spectator, N° 10. When this sentence is properly read, every ear will perceive a peculiar harmony... | |
| 1823 - 406 էջ
...It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and 1 shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have...particular manner recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated families, that set apart an hour in every morning for tea and bread and butter ; and... | |
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