Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… would discipline and polish male tongues. 7 ‘If there were no other Use in the Conversation of Ladies’, argued Jonathan Swift, ‘it is sufficient that it would lay a Restraint upon those odious Topicks of Immodesty and Indecencies, into which … [1671], cited in Domna C. Stanton, The Aristocrat as Art (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980), p. 139. 8 . Jonathan Swift, Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation [1713] in The Works of Jonathan Swift, 2 vols. (Edinburgh: William …
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