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The Spectator, No. 49 (26 April 1711) [ Places ]
… of Men: Such as have not Spirits too Active to be happy and well pleased in a private Condition, nor Complexions too warm to make them neglect the Duties and Relations of Life. Of these sort of Men consist the worthier Part of Mankind; of … with a good Stomach and cheerful Aspect, when Eubulus seems to intimate that Things go well. Nay, their Veneration towards him is so great, that when they are in other Company they speak and act after him; are Wise in his Sentences, and …
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… The Royal Society had coalesced as a microcosm of the restored social order in England after the upheavals of the civil wars and interregnum. At its meetings, experiments were performed for an assembly of witnesses who could freely assent to … 3 . John Theophilus Desaguliers, A Course of Mechanical and Experimental Philosophy (London, 1725), quoted in Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 (Cambridge … Priestley encouraged public lecturers to reproduce the phenomena he had discovered. Itinerants, including Walker, John Warltire, Benjamin Donn, and Henry Moyes, who were already teaching experimental science in various parts of England, …
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… 1 As the century unfolded, the auctions sales relocated from the Royal Exchange and its networks of wharfs and warehouses to the artistic clusters of Soho and Covent Garden and later on flourished in the West End and Pall Mall, … dinner, we met and went to see sold the Weymouth Successe and Fellowship Hulkes where pleasant to see how backward men are at first to bid; and yet when the candle is going out, how they bawl and dispute afterwards who bid the most first’. 3 However chaotic the social gathering, brokers and upholsterers were quick to pick up …
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Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… of the square. 1 . See for instance Richard Horwood, ‘Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjoining Shewing Every House', 1799). Layers of London, www.layersoflondon.org Covent Garden was … A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and T. Ward, 1720), book. VI, chap. VI, p. 89. During the first half of the eighteenth century, the flight of the aristocracy … pit, while the quality took the front and side boxes. The increasing size of the auditoria naturally created a trend towards spectacular entertainments, aimed at a broad audience. Yet appreciation for the show was generally widespread, with …
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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… Image ‘The Coffeehous Mob’, © The Trustees of the British Museum, 1880,0807.301, 1710. Image C. Lamb after G. M. Woodward, ‘A Sudden Thought’, (London: S. W. Fores, 1 Jan. 1804), etching and stipple, (25 × 35.5 cm), BM Sat. 10325.1; Lewis … Eighteenth-Century Studies (37:3, 2004), p. 345–356. 5 . Compare ‘The Coffeehous Mob’ (c. 1710), frontispiece to Edward Ward, The Fourth Part of Vulgus Britannicus: or the British Hudibras (35.5 x 26.2 cm), British Museum [BM] Department of …
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
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