Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… philosophical reflections on the event of the tea-table. Amongst the most sophisticated expressions of this was Joseph Addison ’s in The Spectator . Addison suggested that the purpose of his new periodical was to urbanise moral philosophy: ‘to bring Philosophy out of … Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses’. 4 In this list, Addison identified the tea-table as the equal, and most innovative, of the other significant institutions that …
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