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...philosophy. ' It was said of Socrates that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men. I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I...to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee-houses. I would therefore in a very particular manner recommend my speculations to all well-regulated...

...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...

...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...

...made it subservient to reason : "It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from heaven to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses". His essays are, directly or indirectly, moral — rules of propriety, precepts on when to speak, when...

...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...

...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...

...philosophy. ' It was said of Socrates that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men. I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I...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...

...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...

...of the home. ' It was said of Socrates,' he tells us, 'that he brought philosophy down from heaven to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to...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...