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Public Advertiser (1781) [ Practices ]
… ? People used formerly to meet together for the Sake of Conversation ; but ever since the Card Table has been in Fashion, all the Pleasures of Speech have been suppressed, and a Visit is nothing more than an Endeavour to win the Money …
Gaming | Conversation | Beauty
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The Connoisseur 15 (1754) [ Practices ]
… has affected many in their fortunes, besides the parties immediately concerned. But the most extraordinary part of this fashionable practice is what in the gaming dialect is called, pitting one man against another; that is, in plain English, …
Gambling | Conversation
Anthology
Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation (c. 1713) [ Practices ]
… have done with this, and turned it all into what is generally called repartee, or being smart; just as when an expensive fashion comes up, those who are not able to reach it, content themselves with some paltry imitation. It now passes for …
Conversation | Audience
Anthology
Periodicals [ Print culture ]
Conversation | Correspondence | News | Periodicals | Politics | Women
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Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… of politeness could be contingent on place and occasion. 8 7 . For instance, George Whitefield’s The Polite and Fashionable Diversions of the Age, Destructive to Soul and Body (London: 1740). 8 . Kate Davison, ‘Occasional Politeness …
Civility | Conversation | Consumption | Periodicals
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
Affection | Benevolence | Conversation | Family | Friendship | Imagination | Patriotism | Science | Sympathy
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White lies, polite lies [ Reading & Writing / Communication ]
… is being a very faithful Historian.’ (EJL IV, 127) S he then goes on to excoriate poor Lady Miller for trying to be fashionable: ‘ all her success is to seem an ordinary Woman in very common Life with fine Cloathes on’ ( Ibid. ) . Few …
Conversation | Falsehood | Lies | Politeness
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