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Of National Characters (1748) [ Concepts ]
… 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 neighbours. The common people in … climate, which are supposed to work insensibly on the temper, by altering the tone and habit of the body, and giving a particular complexion, which, though reflection and reason may sometimes overcome it, will yet prevail among the … to all its subjects, it must have a proportional effect on their temper and genius, and must banish all the liberal arts from among them. The same principle of moral causes fixes the character of different professions, and alters even …
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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… ‘The Rhinoceros’, 1751, The National Gallery, NG1101. Image George Stubbs, ‘Zebra’, 1763, Yale Center for British Art, B1981.25.617. Image George Cooke, ‘Exeter Change’, Yale Center for British Art, B1977.14.15219. Image ‘The English Glutton’, 20 July 1776, © The Trustees of the British Museum, BM 1948,0214.562. … of sociability, exotic animals became commodities to be entertained by and to consume collectively thereby becoming part of London life in the eighteenth century. Privileged gentry, aristocracy, and ordinary people established social …
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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… Brooke, ‘The anti-royal menagerie’, Wikimedia Commons, 1812. Image George Stubbs, ‘Lion and Lioness’, Museum of Fine Arts, M. Theresa B Hopkins Fund, 49.6, 1771. Abstract During the long eighteenth century, a huge wave of exotic mania led … public and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and so forth. Across Europe and in particular in such a polished and commercial nation as England, the purchase of exotic items appears to be a form of … Ferguson as ‘a manner of life which we think necessary to civilization, and even to happiness. It is [...] the parent of arts, the support of commerce, and the minister of national greatness, and of opulence’. 2 The exotic, which first …
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Sawrey Gilpin, ‘Two Riders Conversing’, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, undated. Image Doctor Syntax, Rural sport (1 May 1812) by Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827) … the headmaster tried to prepare his pupils for a sociable life and imagined a sociable life after death. People > Art and Literature Keywords Animals Beauty Correspondence Death Education Nature Philanthropy Picturesque Religion … to qualify the image of the asocial theoretician of the picturesque. Even if he was not prone to socializing, which can partly be explained by the excesses of many male social gatherings which he denounces in some places, the headmaster still …
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Phaeton [ Transport ]
… were a unique and overt display of elite status – but a pleasure carriage set those of highest rank and fortune apart from middling coach owners. 2 2 . Ben Jackson, ‘To Make a Figure in the World: Identity and Materiality Literacy in … The phaeton afforded intimate sociability between two occupants as driver and passenger. The phaeton emerged, in part, to facilitate new forms of elite sociability; its long, bendy springs, its open sides, and its ability to travel at … to onlookers the sort of driver, or person, you were. From the novels of Frances Burney to Jane Austen to the satirical cartoons of Gillray and Cruikshank and the essays of Thomas de Quincey there was a significant cultural investment in the …
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Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… that had made hunting a noble pursuit for centuries. In contrast to other coveted quarry – deer, boar, pheasant, partridge, and hare – the fox’s flesh is unpalatable and inedible; and unlike other animals of prey, the fox poses no … status that had made hunting a noble pursuit for centuries. In contrast to other coveted quarry - deer, boar, pheasant, partridge and hare - the fox's flesh is unpalatable and inedible; and unlike other animals of prey, the fox poses no … it was an honour to be executed by the most senior person present, and the carcass of the slayed deer was dissected and carted away following strict social conventions. For the low-status fox, whilst hunted on foot and with traps and snares, …
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