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Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]
… and white, and little ornament, but he also created eagerly absorbed rules about comportment in society. The fascination with the historical Brummell also led to numerous, more-philosophically-oriented essays and books about this cult figure. … and Charles Baudelaire turned him into a mythical icon. People > Fashion Keywords Celebrity Clubs Dandy Fashion Wit Until today, George Bryan ‘Beau’ Brummell (1778-1840) is credited with being the first, the ‘Ur’-dandy. Moving in London’s top aristocratic circles and clubs, being at the very centre of …
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Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… famous clans were the MacDonalds, the Campbells, the MacKenzies, the Grants or the MacLeans. Clans are often associated with the Highlands and the Isles of Scotland but they were in fact present everywhere in the kingdom. They could be … organisation and sometimes in to autarky, especially in winter. Sociability was limited to the everyday interaction with people at home and in the village. Travellers were few. The second category of clans lived in towns and cities, … cause generalised the idea, especially in England, that they were all Catholics. The Catholic community had connections with the continent that fostered transnational sociable practices. Indeed, young Catholic Highlanders were sent to Scots …
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Scriblerus Club (1770) [ Practices / People ]
… The above-named, together with Swift and Parnell, had sometime before formed themselves into a society, called the Scribblerus Club, and I should … by Parnell and corrected by Pope; and as that great poet assures us in the same place, this correction was not effected without great labour. It is still stiff, says he, and was written still stiffer, as it is, I verily think it cost me more … Parnell's, that has appeared in prose, is written in a very aukward inelegant manner. It is true, his productions teem with imagination, and shew great learning, but they want that ease and sweetness for which his poetry is so much admired, …
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The Secret History of Clubs, 1709 [ Practices / Places ]
… set meetings at Taverns and Ale-Houses, in hopes, by the efficacy of a 'few insignificant Orders, to preserve themselves within the bounds of Discretion' and Sobriety, when the only way to keep our Head-strong Appetites in due Subjection, is … Fatten, and grow Rich by the Vicious Habits:. of Unwary Mortals and there vainly hope where their Vertue is undermined with whole Cellars full of Temptations, to keep themselves secure from the Bewitching Prevalency of the inebrious Grape, or from a more baneful excess of those Dropsical Juices extracted by …
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… Sheridan, aged 25, bust to right, looking at the viewer, hair curled at the ears and tied in a queue, oval frame with bow on top, on pedestal with laurel’, 1777, © The Trustees of the British Museum, 1837,0513.11. Image S. W. Fores, ‘A scene in the crown & anchor … ‘In society I have met Sheridan frequently: he was superb! […] I have met him in all places and parties—at Whitehall with the Melbournes, at the Marquis of Tavistock’s, at Robins’s the auctioneer’s, at Sir Humphrey Davy’s, at Sam …
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David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… – ‘never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature . It fell dead-born from the press , without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.’ 1 1 . The Life of David Hume, esq. … Paris, then Reims, and La Flèche, where he wrote the Treatise on Human Nature , and most certainly familiarised himself with French philosophy (Malebranche, Descartes, Bayle). This period was one of retreat for Hume, and of philosophical … the most eminent physicians and philosophers of the time. He was also a founding member of the Select Society (1754) – with Allan Ramsay, Adam Ferguson, William Robertson, Hugh Blair and James Boswell. A subsidiary body, the Edinburgh …
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Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
… People > Art and Literature Keywords Celebrity Conversation Depression Clubs Fame Gender Unkempt, ungainly, uncouth, with appallingly gluttonous table manners, aggressively loud, rude and argumentative, a conversational bully, perpetually … during his peak period, from the late 1740s through until his death in 1784, Johnson’s name was virtually synonymous with sociability within the intellectual and cultural circles of London. Part of the reason for this was the celebrity he gradually gained …
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
Blasphemy | Clubs | Masculinity | Sex
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Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… politics during the French Revolution, this entry underscores other factors. First, it shows how sociability within the clubs became less ‘civil’, or ‘sociable’, due to the explosion of print and the public airing of the clubs’ … it argues that the state’s institutional weaknesses between 1789 and 1793 created a vacuum that the clubs tried to fill, without, however, having the constitutional legitimacy to do so. The two dynamics produced a toxic politics: while the … Régime , many elites, including leading courtiers, had become members. In the 1780s, a raft of clubs sprang up, many with political leanings. Some served as springboards for future revolutionary careers. 4 Jean-Sylvain Bailly, appointed …
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