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A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
Corruption | Eloquence
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
Audience | Coffeehouses | Conversation | Public sphere | Science
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
… state-policy we have state-craft and the mockery of expedience; for the fine arts a marketable trade; for philosophy a jargon of materialism, and the study of nature conducted on such principles as to place it in doubtful rivalry with the …
Affection | Benevolence | Conversation | Family | Friendship | Imagination | Patriotism | Science | Sympathy
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Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… immoral in betting on boxing matches and in giving a reward to the winner ( Boxiana , vol. III, 5-6). Egan uses the jargon of boxers throughout his five volumes of Boxiana since he believes that the use of flash , with all its unrefined …
Rules | Sports
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