Search
Refine your search
Filter by keyword
A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians (1797) [ Practices / Concepts ]
Religion
Anthology
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) [ Concepts ]
… the patois of fraud, in the cant and gibberish of hypocrisy. The people of England must think so, when these praters affect to carry back the clergy to that primitive evangelic poverty which in the spirit ought always to exist in them, …
Law | Religion
Anthology
On Attending the Church Service (1771) [ Practices ]
Religion | Methodism | Churches | Children | Corruption
Anthology
Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… were often negative, especially in the seventeenth century. The absence of company was widely recognised to adversely affect spiritual, mental, and physical health. The frontispiece to Robert Burton’s seminal work, The Anatomy of …
Conversation | Emotions | Gender | Melancholy | Politeness | Privacy | Religion
Encyclopedia
Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… ground of honour’ ( Ibid. ). 2 . ‘While honour and dignity are the reward of virtue, any lapse of it that may tend to affect the character of gentleman, is punishable by formal expulsion from peculiar association, and ultimately, with loss …
Antagonism | Aristocracy | Disorder | Gentleman | Honour | Law | Masculinity | Mundanity | Religion
Encyclopedia
William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… society, in the sweets of friendship, in the endearments of love, in the exercise (…) of all the benevolent and generous affections (…)’. 8 7 . Stephen Tomkins, The Clapham Sect: How Wilberforce’s Circle Transformed Britain (Oxford: Lion …
Abolition | Activism | Benevolence | Charity | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Philanthropy | Religion | Slavery
Encyclopedia
Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… arises not from our living in the world but from the world living in us, occupying our hearts and monopolizing our affections. ‘ ( Thoughts 70) 9 . Letter 25 May 1818 to Mrs Barker Silverton, Barley Wood, Add MS 42511, British Library. …
Bluestockings | Charity | Education | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Manners | Philanthropy | Poverty | Reformation | Religion | Slavery | Women
Encyclopedia
Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
Charity | Empire | Friendship | Gift | Hospitality | Reciprocity | Religion
Encyclopedia