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Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… Image After William Hoare, ‘Richard (‘Beau’) Nash’, © National Portrait Gallery London, NPG 1537, 1909. Abstract Richard Nash, known as Beau Nash by his contemporaries, played a decisive part in the … at Jesus College, Oxford, and an unsuccessful attempt at pursuing a military career, read law at the Middle Temple, London. 1 From the start, he behaved as an ‘easy companion’ who struck innumerable friendships with people from different … century. 1 . Oliver Goldsmith, The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq. Extracted Principally from His Original Papers (London, 1762). His gambling activities were quickly concealed by his innovative action, which was decisive in …
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Laughter [ Communication ]
… , the Sneer, The Grin , the Horse-Laugh in the rear 3 3 . William Brownsword, Laugh Upon Laugh, or Laughter Ridicul’d (London, 1740), p. 20. Laughter involved a complex interplay of body and mind. It was a physical action – not quite a … and surely every way of talking that is practised cannot be esteemed’. 4 4 . James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson (London: Henry Baldwin, 1791), vol. 1, p. 244. For those eager to theorise and encourage polite sociability, laughter was … was a fêted social skill. 6 . Georg Friedrich Meier, The Merry Philosopher; or, Thoughts on Jesting, trans. Anon. (London: J. Newbery and W. Nicoll, 1764), p. 14. In eighteenth-century intellectual circles, however, good humour and …
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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… of femininity, morality, and sociability. 1 . Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature (London: J. Nourse, 1774), vol. 2, p. 76. Identifying the features of a beautiful physical appearance was somewhat simpler … by the viewer: how did one interpret inner beauty? 3 . Thomas Gibson, M. D., The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized (London: T. W. and John Churchill, 1703), p. 438–439. By the mid-century, in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of … body and soul. 4 . Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), p. 118. The conceptualisation of beauty as a mixture of interior and exterior qualities …
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… at times criticizing his own party for its practices ( Correspondence, 207-8). At that time, following his calling in London, he made the acquaintance of several freethinkers (a group of writers he was, to his own dismay, later often … Characteristicks . 7 . Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, trans. revised by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (London: Bloomsburg, 2013), p. 23. In this most eclectic of philosophical works, sociability is not just part and parcel … Further Reading Axelsson, Karl, Political Aesthetics: Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Barton, Roman Alexander,'Lord Shaftesbury and the Ancient Traditions of Sympathy', in …
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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… Will of Hannah More, TNA, PROB 11/1822/405 Image Henry William Pickersgill, ‘Hannah More’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 412, 1822. Abstract Hannah More, a woman of letters, was a Christian activist and philanthropist. Her sociable life in Britain’s major social centers, London and Bath, enabled her to use her closeness to the bluestocking circle and later her membership of the evangelical … she soon became the author of a play, The Search after Happiness , which, first published locally, was republished in London where it won her public recognition. 1 There, thanks to her friends’ letters of introduction, she rubbed shoulders …
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… of sociable culture, which was rendered possible by refined urban settings in middle-scale cities, distinct from both London and Paris. Secondly, the Scottish Enlightenment unprecedentedly contributed to theorising sociability not only … correspondingly negative verdict on those people and situations he termed ‘ unsociable, ’ a quality he encountered in London and elsewhere and which prompted a degree of melancholy that made life almost unbearable. 2 But the passage also … many ways, and there continued to exist powerful networks of aristocratic patronage linking Edinburgh to the worlds of London and the wider empire throughout the eighteenth century. But it is true that the many societies, clubs, coffee …
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Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… praise of the Duke of Marlborough entitled The Campaign (1704) and the play Cato (1713), which was a surprise hit on the London stage and remained one of the most popular plays of the eighteenth century. He served as a Member of Parliament … and conversation of a few select companions’, he declared ( The Spectator , n° 15, 17 March 1711). 5 . James Boswell, London Journal 1762-1763, ed. Gordon Turnbull (London: Penguin, 2010), p. 22, 23; Lawrence Klein, ‘Addisonian Afterlives: Joseph Addison in Eighteenth-Century Culture’, …
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