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Friendship (1793) [ People ]

… and instinctive attachments..." … Friendship … John Thelwall, The peripatetic; or, Sketches of the heart, of nature and society; in a series of politico-sentimental journals, in verse and prose, of the eccentric excursions of Sylvanus …

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The Fable of the Bees (1714) [ Concepts ]

… to Demonstrate, that Human Frailties, during the Degeneracy of Mankind, May Be Turn'd to the Advantage of the Civil Society, and Made to Supply the Place of Moral Virtues . Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane …

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Assemblies in Rome (1781) [ Practices ]

… evening at the conversazionis..." … Grand Tour … Italy … Assemblies … Conversation … Diplomacy … John Moore, A View of Society and Manners in Italy. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1781, Volume 1 (of 2), p. …

Grand Tour | Italy | Assemblies | Conversation | Diplomacy

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Philosophical Transactions (1664/5) [ Practices ]

… Parts of the World . Printed by T.N. for John Martyn at the Bell, a little without Temple-Bar, printer to the Royal Society, 1667. Vol. 1 (6 March 1664/5), p. 1-2. Full text of volume 1 and of all volumes by HATHI TRUST. … Philosophical …

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Journal entry (1779) [ Practices / People ]

… to so much advantage this long time..." … Music … Text taken from The Journals and Letters of Susan Burney: Music and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century England , ed. Philip Olleson (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), p. 84-87 (16 November 1779). …

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Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]

… known for inciting the lurid imagination of Grub Street through the creation of the Brotherhood of St. Francis, a secret society which has since come to be known as the Hell-fire Club. Thus, on the one hand, Dashwood’s life highlights the … hand, his involvement with the Hell-fire Club provides a remarkable if distorted mirror image of the eighteenth-century society’s focus on manners and conviviality. People > Association Practices > Associational culture Keywords Blasphemy … (Kemp 15). Yet lurid stories overshadow much of his altruistic work. As the founder of the Brotherhood of St. Francis, a society which has since come to be known as the Hell-fire Club , Dashwood rose to infamy, providing tinder for the …

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The Nature, Design, and General Rules, of the United Societies (1743) [ Practices / Concepts ]

… they always concluded their meeting with prayer suited to their several necessities. 2. This was the rise of the United Society , first in London , and then in other Places. Such a society is no other than “ a Company of Men having the Form and seeking the Power of Godliness, united in order to pray … salvation .” 3. That it may the more easily be discern'd whether they are indeed working out their own Salvation, each Society is divided into smaller Companies, called Classes, according to their respective Places of Abode. There are about …

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Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]

… sociability which intersects with many other entries in DIGIT.EN.S. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Benevolence Middling sort Politeness Rank The concepts of gentlemanliness and sociability were … status that set a man apart from the lower orders, or plebeians. However, from the late seventeenth century British society was slowly being transformed. The growth of a commercial, consumer economy led to a decoupling of wealth from … 2 . Penelope J. Corfield, ‘The Rivals: Landed and Other Gentlemen’, Negley Harte and Roland Quinault, eds, Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: Essays in Honour of F.M.L. Thompson (Manchester University Press, 1996), pp. 241-58. 3 . …

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Of Refinement in the Arts (1777) [ Concepts ]

… it; while men of libertine principles bestow praises even on vicious luxury, and represent it as highly advantageous to society; and on the other hand, men of severe morals blame even the most innocent luxury, and represent it as the source … and when carried a degree too far, is a quality pernicious, though perhaps not the most pernicious, to political society. To prove the first point, we need but consider the effects of refinement both on private and on public … the growth of unnatural ones, which commonly spring up, when nourished by ease and idleness. Banish those arts from society, you deprive men both of action and of pleasure; and leaving nothing but indolence in their place, you even …

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Laughter [ Communication ]

… targeted appropriately, laughter could also demonstrate and promote good taste – the ubiquitous aspiration of polite society. The German philosopher Georg Friedrich Meier (1718-1777) epitomised this sentiment in his 200-page exposition on … Proof of a refined Taste, never to jest but in a sprightly Manner, and never to approve but sprightly Jests. 6 In a society in which it was the worst of all social crimes to be considered a dullard, the capacity to jest appropriately, … 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 Communis, or an Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour , was …

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