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Autobiography, 1784 [ Places / Practices ]
… discourse, and much amazed our Milanese friends by saying, when applied to, that I really thought the thorns of ancient philosophy were now only fit to burn in the fire, unless we could make a hedge of them to fence in the possession of …
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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… Maxine Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain [2005] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 28-31. Philosophy Among the advocates and opponents of luxury, two philosophers stand out: Bernard Mandeville and David Hume, …
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
… of both sexes how to ‘philosophize’, 2 a term which meant both to ponder philosophically but also to exchange about philosophy with other people. It therefore popularised the Cartesian and Lockean philosophies, claiming that they …
Commerce | Correspondence | Femininity | Periodicals | Politics | Women
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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
Morality | Periodicals | Politeness | Print culture | Politics | Slavery | Theatre | Wit | Women
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Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
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Periodicals [ Print culture ]
… around a dramatization of the editors. 4 . A periodical, more literary than political, but in which the morals, philosophy or painting of society had a prominent place. It initiated a periodic form that transcended many borders and …
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