… ‘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 n° 10 , 12 March 1711) …
Coffeehouses | Drinking | Public sphere | Politics
… of post-Revolution England: he and Addison aspired to bring ‘ philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools, and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee–houses’. 9 Readers were encouraged to set aside …
… and Irish loyalties for Robert Jones. 8 His father Thomas Sheridan, the godson of Jonathan Swift, educated at Trinity College Dublin, was a well-known Irish actor and theatre manager of Smock Alley in Dublin, before moving to London with …