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On Conversation (1782) [ Concepts ]
… all his luxury supreme, And his chief glory, was the gospel theme; There he was copious as old Greece or Rome, His happy eloquence seem'd there at home, Ambitious not to shine or to excel, But to treat justly what he loved so well. It moves …
Conversation | Crime
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… metropolitan elite, and his audiences included a significant proportion of women won over by his charm and passionate eloquence. He expanded the audience for scientific experiments by deploying phenomena that evoked viewers’ sense of the …
Audience | Coffeehouses | Conversation | Public sphere | Science
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