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On Conversation (1790) [ Practices ]
… : containing, various anecdotes relative to that interesting event, and memoirs of Mons. and Madame Du F, Letter 23, Volume I, p.121-122. Printed at Boston, by J. Belknap and A. Young, sold at their printing-office, no. 34, Newbury …
France | Conversation
Anthology
Gentleman's Magazine Grubstreet Journal (1731) [ Concepts ]
… , no. 58 (11 February 1731), p. 56-57. Transcription by Alain Kerhervé. Full text of vol. 1 (1731) and of all volumes by HATHI TRUST. … Gentleman's Magazine Grubstreet Journal (1731) …
Dress | Fashion | Beauty | France
Anthology
Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… The visit was to prove decisive. Her first chronicle of events across the Channel dates to this trip. This first volume was followed by seven more, forming Letters from France (1790-1796), which was published in London by T. Cadell … n° 2004669855, 1790. 1 . In a modern, facsimile edition, Letters from France (LF) forms two series comprising four volumes each (Letters from France by Helen Maria Williams, 2 vols, Introduction by Janet M. Todd, Delmar, New York: … Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1975). Unless otherwise stated, our references will be formatted as series number, volume number, letter number. 2 . The Analytical Review, December 1790; The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, …
Correspondence | France | French Revolution | Politics | Women
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Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… In 1762, she liberally adapted Henry Fielding’s novel, Amelia . Later, in 1768-69, she and Thérèse published two volumes of translated works entitled Nouveau Théâtre Anglais , featuring playwrights Edward Moore, Arthur Murphy, George … In 1769, tensions once again welled up when Garrick took offence at his friend’s remarks in her preface to the first volume of Nouveau Théâtre Anglais . Riccoboni held Garrick’s compatriots entirely accountable for those observations, …
Anglomania | Correspondence | France | Friendship | Theatre
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Parole towns in Britain [ Cities ]
… the local subscription library and they then read their way through nearly four thousand books. Titles borrowed included volumes of military history, travel writing and novels. 6 4 . Renaud Morieux, The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French Wars …
Correspondence | Europe | France | Residences | Travel | War
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Henry Oldenburg (and the Philosophical Transactions) [ Science ]
Community | Correspondence | Networks | France | Science
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David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… form of sociability. The four essays on happiness give an insight into such a process. They were published in the second volume of the Essays Moral and Political , in 1742, and are entitled: ‘the Epicurean,’ ‘the Stoic’, ‘the Platonist’, and …
Clubs | Enlightenment | France | Philosophy | Republic of Letters | Salons | Scotland | Societies
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… from French, but if we add the translations of his disciples and collaborators, we get to about two thousand translated volumes on the most varied subjects: from literature to law, from medicine to military arts. 12 . Khedivé of Egypt and …
Dress | Europe | France | Theatre | Travel
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… insurmountable difficulty will be to interest readers without any romance. It would require the style of the first volumes of J.-J. Rousseau’s Confessions , and this idea is discouraging (Laclos 1064). His unexpected death in Taranto on …
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