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Of Other Laws of Nature (1651) [ Concepts ]
… breaketh his Covenant, and consequently declareth that he thinks he may with reason do so, cannot be received into any Society, that unite themselves for Peace and defence, but by the errour of them that receive him; nor when he is … errours a man cannot reasonably reckon upon as the means of his security; and therefore if he be left, or cast out of Society, he perisheth; and if he live in Society, it is by the errours of other men, which he could not foresee, nor reckon upon; and consequently against the …
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… some places, the headmaster still estimated that his role, when educating young pupils, was to prepare them to live in society. 1 . William Gilpin, Memoirs of Dr. Richard Gilpin … and of his posterity … together with an account of the … better than their persons. 4 2 . For a definition of ‘unsocial sociability’ as the human ‘propensity to enter into society, bound together with a mutual opposition which constantly threatens to break up society’, see Kant, ‘Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Viewpoint’, Cambridge Texts in the History of …
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Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… 259) . ‘Greatrix the Stroker [ was ] Believed in by Boyle‘, 7 the celebrated President of the newly founded Royal Society , and he puzzled and bewitched English society. Even the King, Charles II, 8 as well as other eminent figures at court and in the various institutions of … 84-85. 5 . John V. Fleming, ‘Sanative Contagion Among Cambridge Platonists’, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (159, no. 4, 2015), p. 409-14, p. 410. Accessed September 3, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26159193 6 . The …
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Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… of a particular occasion). Mrs Weichsel is singing from a box, and the foreground is populated by members of fashionable society: between Mrs Weichsel’s box and the tree in the middle stands the famous Duchess of Devonshire, a celebrated …
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