Conversation
[ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… he ‘always had a passion for colloquial discussion’, reflected that ‘ Conversation accustoms us to hear a variety of sentiments, obliges us to exercise patience and attention, and gives freedom and elasticity to our disquisitions’, while …
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Rake
[ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… intimate friends and relatives. But it is with fiction that Richardson honed in on his preoccupation with the moral and sentimental education of Britain’s youth, first in 1740 with Pamela , where the figure of the rake is already …