 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 էջ
...was said of Socrates that he brought philosophy down from heaven to inhabit among men; and I should be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses." He talks gayly of clubs, operas, masquerades, and the fashions ; he discourses pleasantly concerning... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 էջ
...was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from heaven to inhabit among men; and I shall he ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses.' His essays are, directly or indirectly, moral — rules of propriety, precepts on when to speak, when... | |
 | Jeffery A. Smith - 1990 - 246 էջ
...urbane style of eighteenth-century literary journalism. As Addison explained it, they hoped to bring "Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools...Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee-Houses." Less than two weeks after the publication began in 1711, Mr. Spectator used his printer's circulation... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 էջ
...in the eighteenth century: in 1711 Joseph Addison declared himself 'ambitious to have it said . . . that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and...dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee Houses' (Spectator, I, p. 44, no. 10). The philosophers of the midcentury followed him in their... | |
 | Peter France - 1992 - 268 էջ
...'morning lectures'. Then, without abandoning the bantering tone, he makes the serious declaration: It was said of Socrates that he brought philosophy...assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses. (I, 44) One can see how this anticipates what Hume has to say in 'On EssayWriting'. The world of the essay,... | |
 | C. John Sommerville - 1992 - 238 էջ
...the first issues of the Spectator (12 March 1711) creates a different effect if viewed in this light: "I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that...and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee-Houses." One's reaction depends on how one thinks philosophy fared in those new surroundings. Addison also suggested... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 էջ
...Its Public, 333. 1 17One may recall here Joseph Addison's well-known statement in Spectator, No. 10: "I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I...and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee-Houses." 118Thomas Sheridan, British Education: Or the Source of the Disorders of Great Britain (New York: Garland... | |
 | Dieter Stein (linguiste).), Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade - 1994 - 342 էջ
...Spectatorial politeness was also situated in Town as the famous pronouncement in the tenth number indicated: "It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy...and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffeehouses." This passage indicated a turn away from the learned culture of the country gentleman (from whose "Closets... | |
 | Dena Goodman - 1994 - 356 էջ
...said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men," he proclaimed, "and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that...and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in CoffeeHouses." '04 Shaftesbury's vision of polite conversation was homosocial, but the sociable world of Addison and... | |
 | Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse - 1994 - 420 էջ
...as an essayist as being 'to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality' and who was 'ambitious to have it said of me that I have brought...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses', claimed a readership for his Spectator articles of 60,000 a day.50 True, not all these people can have... | |
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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,... 
