Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… needed to counter the religious and moral ‘cant’ of the Methodists, on the one hand, and the fashionable ‘cant’ of sentiment, on the other hand. That interest in vulgar language and pastimes flourished in the last years of the long … were not deemed compatible with genteel sociability. Impostors, crooks, cheats, enthusiasts, Methodists, Jacobins and sentimentalists were all named ‘canters’ at one moment in the century, thereby revealing that the promotion of a British … Companion to Molière (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 177-188. Rivers, Isabel, Reason, Grace, and Sentiment. A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England 1660-1780, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University …
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