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… (Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1996). Scott, Jonathan, The Pleasures of Antiquity: British collectors of Greece and Rome ( New Haven/London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for … (Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1996). Scott, Jonathan, The Pleasures of Antiquity: British collectors of Greece and Rome ( New Haven/London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for …
Aesthetics  |  Art  |  Collecting  |  Curiosity  |  Italy  |  Museums  |  Science
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Characteristicks, of men, manners, opinions, times, 1711 [  ]

…  And surely no Writing or Discourse of any great moment, can seem other than enervated, when neither strong Reason, nor Antiquity, nor the Records of Things, nor the natural History of Man, nor any-thing which can be call'd  Knowledg,  dares …
Conversation  |  Beauty
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Peregrine Pickle (1751) [ Places ]

… with this notice, imagined that they would be entertained with the sight of some curious medals, or other productions of antiquity; but how were they disappointed, when they saw nothing but a variety of shells, disposed in whimsical figures, …
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Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]

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The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]

… Brims discover’d it was carefully preserv’d in that order by a Hat-Case and Smoothing-Iron: He seems greatly to affect Antiquity, you might see by his Garb, tho’ the Coat he has on has not been made above this two Months, yet he would have …
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Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

… period. 1 . Quoted in Jean Louis Flandrin, Massimo Montanari, and Albert Sonnenfeld, Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present, European Perspectives (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), p. 473. Unlike the …
Celebration  |  Conviviality  |  Dining  |  French Revolution  |  Prostitution  |  Radicalism
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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]

Art  |  Cosmopolitanism  |  Diaries  |  Diplomacy  |  Education  |  Entertainement  |  Grand Tour  |  Italy
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Laughter [ Communication ]

… and ‘an expression of ludicrous scorn’. 9  The notion that certain kinds of laughter communicated contempt dated back to antiquity, but it was given momentum and prominence by Thomas Hobbes in  Leviathan  (1651). For Hobbes, laughter was …
Humour  |  Impoliteness  |  Laughter  |  Manners  |  Politeness  |  Taste  |  Wit
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Portable directories [ Print culture ]

… who urged him to study Collins’s Peerage in order to ‘trace your own extraction, and contemplate on the importance and antiquity of your descent'. 7 In the case of Austen’s Persuasion or in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair , family directories …
Collecting  |  Elite  |  Merchants  |  Politeness  |  Rank
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