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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,... "
The British Essayists - Página v
editado por - 1808
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English Literature: With an Appendix on American Literature

Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1880 - 228 páginas
...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...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 páginas
...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...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses". His essays are, directly or indirectly, moral — rules of propriety, precepts on when to speak, when...
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A Manual of English Prose Literature..

William Minto - 1881 - 596 páginas
...these periodicals was " to banish vice and ignorance out of the territories of Great Britain," and " to bring philosophy out of closets and libraries,...to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee-houses." The minor immoralities that he attacked were such as affectation, presumption, foppery,...
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Pope: Essay on Man

Alexander Pope - 1881 - 150 páginas
...down from heaven, to inhabit among men. I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and...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...
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Essays of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1882 - 428 páginas
...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...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses. I would therefore,' he ends with a smile, ' recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated assemblies...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volumen2

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1886 - 582 páginas
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A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading ...

Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 páginas
...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 coffeehouses." "Addison, appearing at a time when English literature was at a very low ebb, made an impression which...
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Development of English Literature and Language

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 páginas
...anioiii: men: and I shall he ambition* to have it said or me, that I have bn>ii<rht Philosophy ont of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tra-tubk'tt, and in coffee-houses.' His essays are, directly or indirectly, moral — rules of propriety,...
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A short sketch of the literature of England under queen Anne. (Wiss. Beilage ...

Albert Hamann - 1883 - 62 páginas
...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...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...
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The Springs of Liberty: The Satiric Tradition and Freedom of Speech

Stewart Justman - 1999 - 180 páginas
...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...and assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses" (No. 10). The faint tone of the ridiculous in this analogy is fitting, for in fact Addison is so far...
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