… to get a London girl rather than ‘Some Indian – Pagans / Spoketh’ Language o’th’ Beast’. 7 Likely it was this latter association between the Mohawk/Iroquois and a perceived barbarity of the Other which led to the subsequent naming of the …
… 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 of privileges, from society in general.’ The British Code of Duel: A Reference to …
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… 13 By the middle of the eighteenth century, conversation occupied an important place in English culture but its association with polite French conversation was increasingly contentious. At issue was the desire to produce an English …
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… Seamen and the authority of experience in early modern science’, History of Science (vol. 58, n° 1, 2020), p. 28-50. Association with the Royal Society could do much to advance one’s reputation and there were attempts to elevate the …