| English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...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... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...follies that are only to be killed by » constant and assiduous culture. It was said of Soi crates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit...particular manner, recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated families that set apart an hour in every morning for tea and bread and butter ; and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 496 pages
...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... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...that desperate state of vice and folly, into which the age is fallen. The mind that lies tallow for a single day, sprouts up in follies that are only...particular manner recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated families, that set apart an hour in every morning for tea and bread and butter ; and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 - English essays - 1810 - 412 pages
...that desperate state of vice and folly, into which the age is fallen. The mind that lies fallow for a single day, sprouts up in follies that are only...particular manner recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated families, that set apart an hour in every morning for tea and bread and butter ; and... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...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...particular manner recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated iainilies that set apart an hour in every morning for tea and bred and butter ; and... | |
| Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...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...particular manner recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated families that set apart an hour in every rnerning for tea ami bred and butter j and... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...constant and assiduous culture. It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from her-ven, to inhabit among men; and I shall be ambitious to...particular manner recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated families, that set apart an hour in every morning for tea and bread and butter ; and... | |
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