| John Walker - 1801 - 424 pagine
...cadence, and have passed from age to age to our own days. Let us 4ake another Example : II was said ef Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven...'and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in cli;bs and as* stimblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses. Spectator, N° 10, When this sentence... | |
| 1803 - 420 pagine
...shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if possible, both ways find their account in the speculation...dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coflee-houses. I would, therefore, in a very particular manner, recommend these my speculations to... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 pagine
...overlooked by graver writers, and more bulky theorists : or, in the language of Addison, " to bring philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses." Of the origin of this species of writing Dr. JOHNSON has given a sketch which it were to be wished... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1803 - 614 pagine
...graver writers, and more bulky theorists : br, in the language of Addison, " to bring philosophy o\it of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses." Vol. ir xi. Though Johnson attributed the praise of original design to Casa in his book of Manners,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pagine
...culture. 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...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses *." * Spectator, N° 10. Of the success which attended the efforts of •Steele and Addison, in the... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 pagine
...be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libra, ries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses *." * Spectator, N° 1Q, Of the success which attended the efforts of Steele and Addison, in the reformation... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 328 pagine
...Socrates was said to have brought philosophy down from heaven to inhabit among men : ' And I,' say* he, ' shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses.' But this purpose has in some measure been defeated by its success ; and we have been driven from one... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 pagine
...overlooked by graver writers, and more bulky theorists : or, in the language of Addison, ' to bring philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses.' Of the origin of this species of writing Dr. JOHNSON has given a sketch which it were to be wished... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 332 pagine
...Socrates was said to have brought philosophy down from heaven to inhabit among men : ' And 1,' says he, ' shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses.' Learning has been divested of the peculiarities of a college dress, that she might mix in polite assemblies,... | |
| John Walker - 1822 - 404 pagine
...Let us take another example : It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven 10 inhabit among men; and I shall be ambitious to have...dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in cofiec-houses. Spectator, JVo. 10. When this sentence is properly read, every ear will perceive a peculiar... | |
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