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Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) [ Concepts ]
… descriptions, by hundreds and thousands together? … Law … Religion … Text taken from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in Twelve Volumes . London: John C. Nimmo, 1887, vol. 3, p. 366-371. Full volume from Project Gutenberg. … …
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Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]
… as well as the proceedings of tavern-based societies, such as those of Richard Price’s Revolution Society decried in Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France . 8 Newspapers became an important medium for publicizing the activities … listed the toasts, which were increasingly seen as a shorthand for the principles upon which a society operated. 8 . See Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, (London: Penguin Classics, 1986), p. 86-89, p. 93-117. … Area, in the Age of the American Revolution’, The Historical Journal (vol. 14, n° 1, 1971), p. 15-47. Newman, Ian, ‘Edmund Burke in the Tavern’, European Romantic Review (vol. 24, n° 2, 2013), p. 125-148. Newman, Ian, The Romantic …
Celebration | Conviviality | Dining | French Revolution | Prostitution | Radicalism
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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… By the mid-century, in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), Edmund Burke suggested that ‘the manners give a certain determination to the countenance, which being observed to correspond … these were underpinned by long-established sociocultural beliefs about the relationship between body and soul. 4 . Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: R. and J. …
Aesthetics | Beauty | Conduct | Femininity | Manners | Women
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Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… a more or less regular basis were David Garrick (1717-1779), Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Arthur Young (1741-1820), Edmund Burke (1729-1797) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), and, when in London, composers such as Antonio Sacchini …
Art | Audience | Bluestockings | Conversation | Music
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… Pitt the Younger’s Tory government. Sheridan joined the Whig fraternity with Fox and William Windham (1750-1810) and Edmund Burke, Dublin-born like him (1729-1797). Sheridan’s sociability (he was smiled on by royalty, being a close friend, in … we are all in the wrong’. Facing them are two wigless Whigs, one is probably Windham, and, in the background, a wigless Edmund Burke turns his back to them as if criticizing their political support to the French Revolution. 5 . See Richard …
Anglo-Irishness | Clubs | Duelling | Politics | Whigs
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Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]
… 1750 to the Present (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001). Before the outbreak of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke dwelt on the idea of a ‘general opinion’ stemming from private reflection on public affairs as they were … highlighted in the opening chapter of Culture and Society (1958), whose first paragraph is specifically dedicated to Edmund Burke and William Cobbett. Through his public speeches and political engagement, ‘Burke is describing a process, …
Books | Censorship | Newspapers | Periodicals | Public sphere
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Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… as among the leading eighteenth century British literary figures and royalty. He was a close friend of David Garrick, Edmund Burke and Henry Fielding, was celebrated by Alexander Pope and even admired by royalty, in particular King George II … and cultural elites’ ( O’Shaughnessy 559-584). Macklin also belonged to the debating Robin Hood Society where he met Edmund Burke and was associated with political and legal circles like the Grecian Coffeehouse, a meeting place for …
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James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… became friends with a set of men he might not otherwise have met, or met so soon and so favourably. These included Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Joshua Reynolds and Oliver Goldsmith; but other friends, like John Wilkes, and various members of …
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Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… to Tories and opponents to the Revolution as a perversion of true British manners and sociability. They followed in that Edmund Burke, one of the main inspirers of the renewal of conservative political philosophy, who had famously called the British … 1798), reprinted in William Gifford (ed.), Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin [1799] (London: J. Wright, 1801), p. 233-256. 13 . Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790], ed. L. G. Mitchell, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, …
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