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Of National Characters (1748) [ Concepts ]
… condemn these undistinguishing judgments: Though at the same time, they allow, that each nation has a peculiar set of manners, and that some particular qualities are more frequently to be met with among one people than among their … I mean all circumstances, which are fitted to work on the mind as motives or reasons, and which render a peculiar set of manners habitual to us. Of this kind are, the nature of the government, the revolutions of public affairs, the plenty or … and reason may sometimes overcome it, will yet prevail among the generality of mankind, and have an influence on their manners. That the character of a nation will much depend on moral causes, must be evident to the most superficial …
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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… used to advocate and challenge established moral virtues, cultural beliefs and women’s self-creation. Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Aesthetics Beauty Conduct Femininity Manners Women ‘Female beauty’, wrote Oliver Goldsmith in An History of the Earth (1776), ‘is always seen to improve … Could a person be beautiful without being beautiful on the inside? When issues of virtue, morality, sensibility, and manners were considered in terms of their relationship with physical attractiveness, beauty was still being understood as …
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Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
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Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… the emergence of a British model of sociability in a decisive way. Through his conviviality, his influence on dress and manners, he participated in the forging of a refined and polite nation. This entry attempts to assess his action without downplaying his moral ambiguity. People > Fashion Keywords Fashion Gaming Manners Politeness Refinement Spa Wit Richard Nash, who was born in Swansea in 1674, has gone down in history as Beau … Bath doctors such as Dr William Oliver who paid tribute to his generosity in A Faint Sketch of the Life, Character, and Manners, of the Late Mr Nash 2 and Dr George Cheyne who often joked with him about the principles of good health. In …
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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… later her membership of the evangelical group, the Clapham Sect, to embark on crusades against poverty, the perverted manners of the Great, the ill-conceived education of women and the evils of slavery. She devised an original … > Politics & Society Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Bluestockings Charity Education Evangelicalism Friendship Manners Philanthropy Poverty Reformation Religion Slavery Women Hannah More (1745-1833), who was one of the first women … As a matter of fact, she used her pen and her literary talents to promote four main causes, the reformation of manners, the abolition of slavery, the education of women and the alleviation of poverty. Having started as a provincial …
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Laughter [ Communication ]
… aspirations inherent in sociability quite like laughter. Practices > Communication Keywords Humour Impoliteness Laughter Manners Politeness Taste Wit In May 1787, author-turned cleric Thomas Monro devoted an issue of his short-lived … eighteenth-century intellectual circles, however, good humour and laughter were not simply a matter of superficial good manners; they were elevated as an essential prop to civil society. The third earl of Shaftesbury ’s essay, Sensus … and contested with geniality, and without descending into fractiousness. Moreover, well-targeted ridicule would refine manners and morals: laughing at another’s foibles would gently correct unsociable behaviour. In Shaftesbury’s words, ‘we …
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… Philosophy People > Art and Literature People > Aristocracy Keywords Affection Catholicism Cosmopolitanism Enlightenment Manners Politeness Whigs Wit Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), fundamentally shaped the … in the texts that were published from 1698 to 1710 and then collected in the three volumes of Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711 and 1714). Having inherited the Earldom upon his father’s death in 1699, he became a … [2.124]) with the disciplinary practices of sociability. 5 Above all, this meant the practice of polite conversation and manners. Shaftesbury believed that the pleasure of such conversatio ns would strengthen our natural social affections …
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James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… which placed a limit on his capacity for sociability. People > Art and Literature Keywords Alcohol Depression Charm Manners Sex Boswell, who was born into a Scottish Presbyterian legal and landowning family in 1740, suffered all his life … Addison’s character in sentiment, mixed with a little of the gaiety of Sir Richard Steele ’, to which he will add ‘the manners’ of his friend the Edinburgh actor ‘Mr Digges’ ( London Journal 89). A proper balance of sentiment, humour and manners, in other words, is necessary for Boswellian sociability, no matter what the activity, and notwithstanding the …
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… > Political & Moral philosophy Keywords Britishness Commerce Cosmopolitanism Enlightenment Gender Moral philosophy Manners Politeness Public sphere In his 1742 essay ‘ Of essay writing’, the Scottish philosopher David Hume gave a clue … Many of these were dedicated to the causes of Scottish economic and agricultural prosperity, to the refinement of manners and the culture of the mind, and to the understanding of the distinctive problems facing Scotland as a ‘ … to the Enlightenment’.] … Britishness … Commerce … Cosmopolitanism … Enlightenment … Gender … Moral philosophy … Manners … Politeness … Public sphere … Scottish Enlightenment …
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