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Public Advertiser (22 April 1763) [ Practices ]
… and clogs up the Brain; it promotes and prevents thinking; it hinders you from talking at all, or it enables you to talk with proper Gravity and Sedateness, as it obliges you to make the proper Pauses, which Sheridan in his Lectures … St. Alban's , swell too high for his Lordship's Pocket, there are many a Tavern-keepers, who will salute him at parting with a - Very welcome, Sir - at a Quarter the Expence. The Coal-heaver, on the al contrary, is under a Necessity of … as I Shall confine my present Observations to Liquors only) Which the Palates of the Vulgar are never regaled with. The first Tax, that I shall mention, is an additional Duty upon Tea: And this I would have extended to all Sorts of …
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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… century. By its very nature, luxury is always defined in relation to an audience and hence cannot be conceived of without interaction. Humans not only have the urge to indulge in it but also to display it as evidence of their status. … prerogative of the privileged classes of rulers, warriors, churchmen and landowners’ 2 who displayed items associated with ‘surplus resources’ and ‘high culture’ to cement their elite status and underline their authority. Thus, the display … sociability: The more these refined arts advance, the more sociable men become : nor is it possible, that, when enriched with science, and possessed of a fund of conversation, they should be contented to remain in solitude, or live with their …
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