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Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… sociability which intersects with many other entries in DIGIT.EN.S. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Benevolence Middling sort Politeness Rank The concepts of gentlemanliness and sociability were … status that set a man apart from the lower orders, or plebeians. However, from the late seventeenth century British society was slowly being transformed. The growth of a commercial, consumer economy led to a decoupling of wealth from … 2 . Penelope J. Corfield, ‘The Rivals: Landed and Other Gentlemen’, Negley Harte and Roland Quinault, eds, Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: Essays in Honour of F.M.L. Thompson (Manchester University Press, 1996), pp. 241-58. 3 . …
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]
Benevolence | Conduct | Imagination | Morality | Sympathy
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William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… was nicknamed, was first and foremost a sociable voice: having converted to evangelical activism, he used his gifts in society as a ‘talisman’ to re-moralize his country and delineated a new model of sociability that was philanthropic and … impact of ‘(being) intent upon shining in company’ ( The Life , vol. I, 157), of the dangers of table talk: ‘(…) when in society I am too apt to lose the sense of God’s presence, or possess it feebly and faintly, and I do not try to turn the … in the temperate use of all the gifts of Providence (…). He relaxes in the feast of reason, in the intercourses of society, in the sweets of friendship, in the endearments of love, in the exercise (…) of all the benevolent and generous …
Abolition | Activism | Benevolence | Charity | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Philanthropy | Religion | Slavery
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
Affection | Benevolence | Conversation | Family | Friendship | Imagination | Patriotism | Science | Sympathy
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Friendship [ Social interaction / Character / Feelings & Emotions ]
… Britain may not be its heterogeneity as such, but the degree to which it was accepted as a crucial element in British society’s self-perceptions despite this heterogeneity. 2 . Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea, trans. W. D. Ross (Oxford: …
Benevolence | Family | Literature | Morality | Philosophy
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