Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… rise of their own Accord’ ( The Spectator , n° 57, 5 May 1711). In this way, Addison’s sociable ideal had an important influence on later theorists of polite sociability, such as David Hume, who also believed that heterosociability was a …
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