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… conversation, as opposed to gossip. The Free-Thinker (1718-1721), a bi-weekly essay paper coedited by the poet Ambrose Philips and a circle of Hanoverian Whigs, typically ambitioned to teach the readers of both sexes how to ‘philosophize’, … Periodicals’ in Davis, Paul (ed.), Joseph Addison , Tercentenary Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). Philipson, Nicholas, ‘Politeness and Politics in the reign of Anne and the early Hanoverians’, in Pocock, JGA, Schochet, …
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