 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 Spectator - Strana 53úprava: - 1898Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Albert Hamann - 1883 - Počet stránok 62
...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, 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... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - Počet stránok 500
...and L 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, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses. . . . " Sir Francis Bacon once observes, that a well-written book compared with its rivals and antagonists,... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - Počet stránok 612
...and I should 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, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses." He talks gayly of clubs, operas, masquerades, and the fashions ; he discourses pleasantly concerning... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - Počet stránok 490
...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, at tea-tables and in coifee-houses. . . . " Sir Francis Bacon once observes, that a well-written book compared with its... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1884 - Počet stránok 202
...; 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, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses." ' Johnson, in his Life of Addison, says that the task undertaken in the Spectator was " first attempted... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1884 - Počet stránok 486
...conntry; the latter popularized religion. ' I have brought,' ho says, ' philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffeebouses." " Addison, appearing nt a time when English literature was at a very low ebb. made an... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - Počet stránok 1108
...me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell ia clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses....these my speculations to all well-regulated families, and set apart an hour in every morning for tea and bread and butter ; iii'i would earnestly advise... | |
 | Herbert Fry - 1886 - Počet stránok 372
...the ambition of Addison to have it said of him that he had " brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses." It is my ambition — I say it, I hope, with due modesty — to set the fascinating story of London... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - Počet stránok 304
...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, at tea-tables and in coffee-hquses.." Addison's satire was never personal. He was a moderate man, and did what he could... | |
 | 1887 - Počet stránok 374
...the ambition of Addison to have it said of him that he had " brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses." It is my ambition — I say it, I hope, with due modesty — to set the fascinating story of London... | |
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