 | Roy Porter - History - 2001 - 340 pages
...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... | |
 | Phyllis Whitman Hunter - Business & Economics - 2001 - 252 pages
...what Joseph Addison in the Spectator styled as bringing philosophy and political economy "out of the Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell...and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee-Houses." Market relations influenced not only the flow of goods and capital but the equally crucial flow of... | |
 | Keith Michael Baker, Peter Hanns Reill - Philosophy - 2001 - 220 pages
...defined the Spectator's aims as relocating philosophy and, so, remapping the cultural world, bringing "Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools...Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at TeaTables, andCoffee-Houses.'*2 As in Shaftesbury, philosophy here was being transferred from what were represented... | |
 | Christian Libery Press, Garry J. Moes - Education - 1999 - 452 pages
...with wit, and to temper wit with morality." He said his aim was to bring philosophy "out of the closet and libraries, schools, and colleges, to dwell in...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses." Addison was also a poet whose work sometimes reflected somewhat deist views. For example, Addison penned... | |
 | Bennett Alan Weinberg, Bonnie K. Bealer - History - 2001 - 428 pages
...goals, Addison said, "I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I brought philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffeehouses." This was the time the first true newspapers appeared, successors to odd journals such... | |
 | Religion - 2001 - 242 pages
...intellectual establishment was becoming more cosmopolitan and urban; coming, in Addison's words, 'out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, tea-tables and coffee houses'. One of these was the Kit-Kat Club, set up by Whig supporters at the... | |
 | Patricia Fara - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 390 pages
...different routes and interpreted his work in very different ways. Addison's Mr Spectator declared that 'I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that...Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee-Houses.' 21 Like him, these three Newtonian publicists were determined to make Newtonianism a public commodity... | |
 | Patricia Fara - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 400 pages
...different routes and interpreted his work in very different ways. Addison's Mr Spectator declared that 'I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that...dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee -Houses.'21 Like him, these three Newtonian publicists were determined to make Newtonianism... | |
 | Peter Harrison - History - 2002 - 292 pages
...obvious gap between the vulgar and the learned. It was the role of The Spectator, for example, to bring 'Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools...and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffeehouses.' Addison, in The Spectator no. 16, Monday March 12, 17n. 4 SACRED HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY Henry... | |
 | Clarissa Campbell Orr - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 334 pages
...excluded the latter as much as possible. As Addison had said in The Spectator, his aim had been to take philosophy 'out of Closets and Libraries, Schools...dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee-Houses'.13 Lawrence Klein's analysis of the public sphere shows how much, since the beginning... | |
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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,... 
