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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
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Assemblies in Rome (1781) [ Practices ]
… than the luxuries of the table: they generally dine at home, in a very private manner. Strangers are seldom invited to dinner, except by the foreign ambassadors. The hospitality of Cardinal Bernis alone makes up for every deficiency of that …
Grand Tour | Italy | Assemblies | Conversation | Diplomacy
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Rules for Walking the Streets (1737) [ Places / Practices ]
… where are you tramping, how does Mary and the Child? I'm going to get a Bit of something at Market for Robin's Dinner .--Two Doctors Chariots are lying along side of each other, converting on the Progress of Diseases, and the Power …
Conduct | Conversation | Public sphere
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Casanova in London (1763) [ People ]
… see that my fastidiousness amused the landlord immensely. “I’ll see no more girls,” said I at last, “let me have a good dinner. I think the procurer must have been making game of me for the sake of the shillings.” “It’s very likely; indeed …
Assemblies | Music | Women
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… his guests (Franklin 40). Hester revelled in her role as the fashionable hostess of a literary salon (including a lavish dinner table), vying with, and accepted by, the Bluestocking queen Elizabeth Montagu , who frequently visited at … Reynolds, or Dr Charles Burney , who was engaged as Queenie’s music tutor but quickly gained a place at the famous dinner table. In 1777, Hester, an ardent Tory, was introduced at Court. A year later, she began to patronize Dr Burney’s … at the Rylands Library, Eng. MS. 618. On their return to Britain in 1787, the Piozzis continued to be sociable, hosting dinners for their still numerous acquaintances, inviting friends first to a rented house in Hanover Square, then to …
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To Mary Berry (1795) [ Practices ]
… boys; the second, especially, is a bold miniature of his mother, and consequently beautiful. They staid with me till dinner-time; Lady Lincoln has lent her house at Putney, while she is at Tunbridge, to Horatia, who expects Lord Hugh soon …
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Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]
Benevolence | Conduct | Imagination | Morality | Sympathy
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Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
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