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Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… It requires the greatest curiosity, or the greatest habitude, to discover the smallest connection between the sexes here. N o familiarity, but under the veil of friendship, is permitted, and love's dictionary is as muc h …
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Flora Tristan [ Travel / Art and Literature ]
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David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… life were therefore highly valued by Hume in theory ̶ ‘particular clubs and societies are everywhere formed: Both sexes meet in an easy and sociable manner; and the tempers of men, as well as their behaviour, refine apace’ (Hume, …
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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… 1792), p. 80. 17 . A cultural establishment that delivered lectures in various disciplines. It was open to both sexes and promoted liberty, equality and cosmopolitanism. See LF I,2,18. 18 . In LF I,1,2-3, she described the Fête de la … till night […] At the Athénée, a long established literary institution, nothing attracts so brilliant a crowd of both sexes as the discussion of some political question by M. Benjamin Constant’, Letters on the Events Which Have Passed in …
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Masonic brotherhood [ Rituals & Ceremonies / Associational culture ]
… dans ce temple, je leur dirais : voyez les femmes que la maçonnerie a formées… elles vous réconcilieront avec un sexe que vous calomniez ; ce que vous prétendez impossible vous l’allez voir à chaque pas et marchant de prodiges en …
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