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On Conversation (1782) [ Concepts ]
… VIRG. ECL. 5. Though nature weigh our talents, and dispense To every man his modicum of sense, And Conversation in its better part May be esteem'd a gift, and not an art, Yet much depends, as in the tiller's toil, On … and my patience fails. 'Tis the most asinine employ on earth, To hear them tell of parentage and birth, And echo conversations dull and dry, Embellish'd with—He said,—and, So said I. At every interview their route the same, The … opposers with united strength, And, one in heart, in interest, and design, Gird up each other to the race divine. But Conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer …
Conversation | Crime
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French epistolary novel [ Literary & Artistic genres / Reading & Writing ]
Conversation | Correspondence | Fiction | France
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White lies, polite lies [ Reading & Writing / Communication ]
… reject a sociable sincerity that proved to be elusive. Practices > Reading & Writing Practices > Communication Keywords Conversation Falsehood Lies Politeness A white lie, the OED explains, is ‘a harmless or trivial lie, esp. one told in … 3 If James Boswell is to be believed, Johnson himself generally used the term rather loosely in his own third sense in conversation, indicating a story that was not strictly accurate rather than a deception. This, however, led him into … a darker complexion’ (187). He explicitly cautioned against what might be termed sociable lies, or polite lies told in conversation: ‘Much of the pleasure, and all of the benefit of conversation, depends upon our opinion of the speaker’s …
Conversation | Falsehood | Lies | Politeness
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On Conversation (1793) [ Concepts ]
… is a sort of domestic tactics, the object of which is to instruct us to elude curiosity, and to keep up the tenour of conversation, without the disclosure either of our feelings or our opinions. The philanthropist has no object more deeply … we obtain the courage of striking into untrodden paths, and questioning tenets that have been generally received. But conversation accustoms us to hear a variety of sentiments, obliges us to exercise patience and attention, and gives … who, having first stored their minds with reading and reflection, proceed afterwards in candid and unreserved conversation to compare their ideas, to suggest their doubts, to remove their difficulties, and to cultivate a collected …
Conversation
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Dialogues Concerning Education (1745) [ Concepts / Practices ]
Education | Conversation | Gender | Friendship | Children
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… societies, and public lectures. They conveyed natural knowledge through shared aesthetic experiences; they also elicited conversation and facilitated new forms of sociability. At the beginning of the era, William Whiston and others showed … associational forms of the public sphere. Practices > Politics & Society People > Science Keywords Audience Coffeehouses Conversation Public sphere Science Scientific experiments played a significant role in the spaces of sociability that … clubs, assembly rooms, coffeehouses, and taverns. Experiments occurred in settings of social interaction and conversation; they were performed as part of educational curricula and in public lectures offered to paying audiences. As …
Audience | Coffeehouses | Conversation | Public sphere | Science
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