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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… that, when enriched with science, and possessed of a fund of conversation, they should be contented to remain in solitude, or live with their fellow-citizens in that distant manner, which is peculiar to ignorant and barbarous nations. …
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Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice [1793] (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985), p. 289; Samuel Johnson, ‘Solitude not eligible’ in The Adventurer, no 126, (19 Jan. 1754). Not surprisingly, conversation would be called ‘ la …
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