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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]

… whom he frequented the most when he resided in Rome. In his diary, John repeatedly mentioned Byres's presence at the dinners his father organised and to which he invited his compatriots and close friends such as Byres and the Abbé Peter … Seroux d'Agincourt (1730-1814). John Ramsay did not specify the subjects of the discussions at these dinner parties. He did, however, indicate on several occasions that the guests brought British newspapers, pamphlets and … Ramsay also had the opportunity to develop his network of relations and to perfect his social education during the many dinners and salons to which he was invited. In Rome, he went to visit James Byres regularly and was thus able to frequent …

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… his guests (Franklin 40). Hester revelled in her role as the fashionable hostess of a literary salon (including a lavish dinner table), vying with, and accepted by, the Bluestocking queen Elizabeth Montagu, who frequently visited at … Joshua Reynolds, or Dr Charles Burney, who was engaged as Queenie’s music tutor but quickly gained a place at the famous dinner table. In 1777, Hester, an ardent Tory, was introduced at Court.  A year later, she began to patronize Dr Burney’s … at the Rylands Library, Eng. MS. 618. On their return to Britain in 1787, the Piozzis continued to be sociable, hosting dinners for their still numerous acquaintances, inviting friends first to a rented house in Hanover Square, then to …

James Byres [ Travel ]

… of dining often with All the Young Men of Rank that travail’. 9   Byres regularly had guests for breakfast and he hosted dinner parties at his home for travellers who were potential customers for his art dealing and architecture business. … [the Irish sculptor], Abbè Butler, and others whose names I have forgot’ (Ingamells 2003, 94). Byres's Christmas dinner was particularly well known to the British and illustrated the rivalry between Byres and Jenkins, who also held a Christmas dinner for Grand Tourists and artists. Indeed, Thomas Jones stated in his diary: Being Christmass day a number of us, to …

William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]

… the third person, he insists on his choice of limited social interactions. He neither gave, nor received invitations to dinner. He was surrounded by rich neighbours, who were continually making handsome entertainments. He was glad to receive a friend at dinner in a family way; or a neighbour to drink tea: but the expence of entertainments — the loss of time they occasioned, which in large mixed companies is seldom made up by any thing but a good dinner – and the bustle they throw a little family into – were all reasons with him for avoiding such engagements. […] …

Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]

… Passion Conduct ‘It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.’ 1   Few other statements in history have ever been received as so … the infamous lines of WN : ‘It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, …

Dositej Obradović [ Travel ]

… cultural circles of the time. Obradović later remembered that: […] every Tuesday my friend Mr. Livie entertained at dinner some of his learned friends, and every Friday they gathered in a jovial company at dinner at the house of Dr. William Fordyce, a physician and Knight of the Golden Fleece, to whom the king had awarded … is commonly referred to as 'Taylor of Norich'.  The Livies (particularly Mrs. Livie) were frequently invited to tea and dinner parties at Godwin’s home. Among the other guests who frequented the Livies were Robert Southey, Sir James …