Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… politeness as extolled for instance by David Hume in ‘Of Refinement in the Arts’: civilization here is based on a social exchange between men and women who meet and correspond on an equal footing.( Eger 41-43) Virtue, wit, good humour, …
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