...Montaigne would have found congenial: "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." The governing conceit in Addison's public-spirited philosophy of manners is an awareness, derived from...

...culture. Mr Spectator famously declared: 'I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and...dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee-houses.'8 The coffee-house plays a significant role in The Spectator's project, not only as...

...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...to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at TeaTables, and Coffee- Houses.8 The Addison passage makes explicit a point that is implicit in the passage cited from...

...defined the Spectator's aims as relocating philosophy and, so, remapping the cultural world, bringing "Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools...Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at TeaTables, andCoffee-Houses.'*2 As in Shaftesbury, philosophy here was being transferred from what were represented...

...what Joseph Addison in the Spectator styled as bringing philosophy and political economy "out of the Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell...and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee-Houses." Market relations influenced not only the flow of goods and capital but the equally crucial flow of...

...with wit, and to temper wit with morality." He said his aim was to bring philosophy "out of the closet and libraries, schools, and colleges, to dwell in...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses." Addison was also a poet whose work sometimes reflected somewhat deist views. For example, Addison penned...

...goals, Addison said, "I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I brought philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffeehouses." This was the time the first true newspapers appeared, successors to odd journals such...

...intellectual establishment was becoming more cosmopolitan and urban; coming, in Addison's words, 'out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, tea-tables and coffee houses'. One of these was the Kit-Kat Club, set up by Whig supporters at the...

...more obvious gap between the vulgar and the learned. It was the role of The Spectator, for example, to bring 'Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries,...and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffeehouses.' Addison, in The Spectator no. 16, Monday March 12, 17n. 4 SACRED HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY Henry...

...Addison's Mr Spectator declared that '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.' 21 Like him, these three Newtonian publicists were determined to make Newtonianism a public commodity...