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Rules for Walking the Streets (1737) [ Places / Practices ]
… with a severe one . The very Manner of giving adds to the Gift. There cannot be a greater Mark of Ignorance and Ill Manners, thian to gape at a Person worn down in a Consumption, afflicted with a Jaundice, or labouring under any other … throws her into visible Disorders..." … Conduct … Conversation … Public sphere … Text from Erasmus Jones, The Man of Manners: or, Plebian Polish'd. Being Plain and Familiar Rules for a Modest and Genteel Behaviour. London : Printed for …
Conduct | Conversation | Public sphere
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Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… up‘ – Johnny Bull pays the piper!! Courtesy of the British Museum. Abstract This entry examines the social structures, manners and sociability of the Scottish clans during the long eighteenth century. It discusses the debates on their place … in the Lowlands. They had a feudal system established during the Norman invasions. Their social structures and manners were similar to the ones in English towns. Few clans were Catholic and most were Episcopalian, but the … 1 . William F. Skene, The Highlanders of Scotland, Their Origin, History, and Antiquities, with a Sketch of Their Manners and Customs (Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1837). 2 . Unknown, ‘Memorial Concerning the State of the Highlands and …
Clans | Clubs | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland | Tradition
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On the Lycée (1792) [ Practices ]
… , Letters from France: containing many new anecdotes relative to the French Revolution, and the present state of French manners. Boston: Printed [by J. Belknap and A. Young] for Thomas and Andrews, David West, and E. Larkin, Jun, 1792, Vol. …
France | Education | Science
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Assemblies in Rome (1781) [ Practices ]
… the conversazionis..." … Grand Tour … Italy … Assemblies … Conversation … Diplomacy … John Moore, A View of Society and Manners in Italy. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1781, Volume 1 (of 2), p. 381-386. Full …
Grand Tour | Italy | Assemblies | Conversation | Diplomacy
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Theatres and Cafés in revolutionary Paris (1792) [ Practices ]
… Letters from France: containing many new anecdotes relative to the French Revolution, and the present state of French manners. Boston: Printed [by J. Belknap and A. Young] for Thomas and Andrews, David West, and E. Larkin, Jun, 1792, …
France | Theatre | Coffeehouses | French Revolution
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Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
Civility | Conversation | Consumption | Periodicals
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Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
Antagonism | Civility | Enmity | Falsehood | Friendship | Gender | Politeness | Women
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Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… to the Enlightenment values of sociability based on a belief in the benefits of trade and luxury in polishing national manners. Furthermore, pugilism often used the egalitarian argument as many pugilists came from the lower orders, and the … Barry, boxing ‘promise[d] nothing less than rendering more callous the feelings, and making still more dissolute the manners of the lower order of the people, as well as the gradual extinction of that bravery, and h umanity, which at … Boddy, Kasia, Boxing: A Cultural History (London: Reaktion Books, 2008). Downing, Karen, ‘The Gentleman Boxer: Boxing, Manners, and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century England’, Men and Masculinities [2008] (vol. 12, n°3, 2010 ), p. 328-352. …
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