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Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]

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The Secret History of Clubs, 1709 [ Practices / Places ]

… Malt, especially when such Tippling Societies have nothing to Awe them in. the height of their Jollity from a persuit of Drunkenness, and a shameful Lapse into all the Follies that attend it, but a few lame Laws of their own making, which …
Clubs  |  Drinking
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The Nature, Design, and General Rules, of the United Societies (1743) [ Practices / Concepts ]

… name of God in vain. The profaning the Day of the Lord, either by doing ordinary Work therein or by buying or selling: Drunkenness,  Buying or selling Spirituous Liquors, or drinking them ( unless in Cases of extreme Necessity :) Fighting , …
Religion
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Of Refinement in the Arts (1777) [ Concepts ]

… infidelity to the marriage-bed, be more frequent in polite ages, when it is often regarded only as a piece of gallantry; drunkenness, on the other hand, is much less common: A vice more odious, and more pernicious both to mind and body. And …
Commerce  |  Refinement  |  Luxury  |  Charity  |  Corruption  |  Democracy  |  Disorder  |  Happiness
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Of Other Laws of Nature (1651) [ Concepts ]

… onely concern the doctrine of Civill Society. There be other things tending to the destruction of particular men; as Drunkenness, and all other parts of Intemperance; which may therefore also be reckoned amongst those things which the Law …
Nature  |  Social Contract  |  Law
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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]

… But the Case is very different with these inferior Masquerades; for these are indeed no other than the Temples of Drunkenness, Lewdness, and all Kind of Debauchery. 2 As Terry Castle notes, mentions of masquerades for the lower classes …
Assemblies  |  Masquerade
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Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]

Benevolence  |  Middling sort  |  Politeness  |  Rank
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]

… 10  Others, such as Peter Clark, assert that ‘despite their various rituals, [they] were probably more concerned with drunkenness than irreligion’. 11  Whether myth or reality, Wharton’s alleged club proved short-lived, and an Irish group …
Blasphemy  |  Clubs  |  Masculinity  |  Sex
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Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]

… The gin palace was like a machine which enabled people to get drunk in industrial quantities. A Select Committee on Drunkenness , set up by Sheffield MP James Silk Buckingham, heard testimony to this effect in the summer of 1834. And …
Alcohol  |  Crime  |  Friendship  |  Poverty
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Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]

… In the writings of these women conviviality is typically seen as an irresponsible indulgence that can lead to drunkenness and gambling, often at the expense of women and children. Many of these tropes would be taken up and expanded …
Community  |  Conviviality  |  Hilarity  |  Politics  |  Song  |  Toasting
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