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Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… underpinnings of her enduring friendships with David Garrick and Robert Liston. 1 1 . Mme Riccoboni's Letters to David Hume, David Garrick, Robert Liston, ed. James C. Nicholls (Oxford, The Voltaire Foundation, 1976). Riccoboni wrote her … Joseph Addison , and Alexander Pope . In Paris, she also rubbed shoulders with figures such as Richard Burke, David Hume , Adam Smith , and Philip Changuion, the British ambassador to France. In 1765, she entered into correspondence with … had its own share of unsavoury attributes. To make peace with Garrick following her comments, she admitted, echoing Hume—during a visit to Paris in 1764, the philosopher had gifted Riccoboni with a copy of his History of England—, that …
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Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… with one another through digital social networks, early modern individuals such as Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire , David Hume , Cesare Beccaria, and Madame du Deffand maintained active communication by writing letters to their vast numbers of …
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William Godwin (and his diary) [ Philosophy / Politics / Political & Moral philosophy / Feelings & Emotions / Diaries & Letters ]
… his search for deliberative companions in some of the letters he wrote. On 12 January 1796 the Diary notes: ‘12. Tu. Hume, p. 307. Allen, Stodart, J Hollis & Otton call; talk of education, volition, matter & duplicity: dine at Robinson's, … to the relationship and where it revolved wholly around shared ideas and enjoyment in each other’s company. David Hume ’s convivial Edinburgh dinners might be such occasions. In London in the 1790s, however, the political atmosphere …
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… conversation. Bluestocking sociability was based on the advance of politeness as extolled for instance by David Hume in ‘Of Refinement in the Arts’: civilization here is based on a social exchange between men and women who meet and …
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Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… Elliot, James Macdonald, Lord Robert Darcy, Lord Shelburne, Lord Bath, Charles James Fox, Charles Fitz Roy, David Hume , Edward Gibbon, and John Taaffe figured among her distinguished guests. 3 . Walpole to Thomas Gray, 25 January …
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