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Friendship [ Social interaction / Character / Feelings & Emotions ]
… of national and local politics, art, horticulture, science and every other sphere of human activity or inquiry. With such widespread usage came great variation in the ideas and traditions that the word ‘friendship’ was seen … discourse by use of the adjective ‘particular’. Particular friendships were understood to operate primarily within the private sphere, though in practice their influence – their benefits and their temptations – could also extend … between its subjects as morally-informed and beneficial to the nation – in this, it related closely to other structures within the grounds of Stowe: for instance, the Temple of Ancient Virtue and the Temple of British Worthies, both designed …
Benevolence | Family | Literature | Morality | Philosophy
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
Affection | Benevolence | Conversation | Family | Friendship | Imagination | Patriotism | Science | Sympathy
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William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… from his ‘conversion’ until his death, engaged in a sort of systemic activism that entailed a complex relation with sociability and the delineation of a philanthropic model of interaction with the other. Wilberforce was born into an affluent middle-class family of Hull merchants 1 and his own story is intertwined with a family saga. Anne Stott, in her biography of his life, has underlined the interplay between moral sentiments – …
Abolition | Activism | Benevolence | Charity | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Philanthropy | Religion | Slavery
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Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]
Benevolence | Conduct | Imagination | Morality | Sympathy
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Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The Rochester Address or The Corporation Going To Eat Roast Pork and Oysters with the R-G-T’, Met Museum, 59.533.303, 1789. Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The Social Evening’, Met Museum, 59.533.1640(3), … now regarded as superficial, corrupting. This entry considers this shift in gentlemanly sociability which intersects with many other entries in DIGIT.EN.S. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Benevolence … Penelope Corfield calls ‘a sufficiently confident display’. 2 That is, if you could claim to be a gentleman and get away with it, you were a gentleman. Elizabeth Marsh (1735-85), whose life has been chronicled by Linda Colley, is a good …
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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