… number of duels had waned by the end of the eighteenth century (Kiernan 185). In an issue of The Spectator devoted to clubs, Addison tells us that there was even a club which he finds ‘mischievous’, the ‘Club of Duellists’, where none could be admitted if they had not killed a man in a duel. The members sat in the order of …
Menageries
[ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… of a manual labourer), the turtle was considered to be a means to secure social relationship. Gentlemen attending the club used to eat turtle with sobriety in amiable fellowship. The dinner registers of the Royal Society’s dining club attest the importance of turtle in socialising. The donation of a turtle was seen as a means of enhancing a …
… merchant who sold French wines, a cook who could speak French, and introduced him to several ‘strange confraternities’, clubs and masonic lodges. The same day, an Italian man of letters he met at a coffee house showed him a house for rent …