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Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… Britain in the prized, and often intertwined, virtues of liberality, hospitality, charity, friendship, generosity, honour and patronage. The exchange of gifts helped to foster and deepen social relationships, from friends and kin to … Three Parts (1679) – Roger L’Estrange’s translation of which had 11 editions by 1718 – argued that ‘it is a Mean, and Dishonourable thing, to Give, for any other End, than for Giving-sake. He that Gives for Gain, Profit, or any By-End, … In 1772, Robert Clive, who had received £234,000 from the Nawab of Bengal, tried to clarify a distinction between honourable and dishonourable gifts: 12 . The Case of Mr. Patrick Haldane, Advocate: With Some Remarks upon his Defence …
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Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… damaging. Since women did not have the same legal recourse as men and could not challenge an opponent to a duel if their honour was infringed, their reputation, as well as that of her family, kin, and other acquaintances, could be irreparable … in seeking retribution. He may chastise, challenge, and even destroy his adversary. Such a proceeding in MAN is termed honourable; his character is exonerated from the stigma which calumny attached to it; and his courage rises in estimation … intimates. But what should they to do if an enmity did arise? According to Lord Chesterfield, injury to an individual’s honour or moral character had two possible recourses: ‘extreme politeness, or a duel’. Whilst duels remained a feature of …
Antagonism | Civility | Enmity | Falsehood | Friendship | Gender | Politeness | Women
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Petersfield in Hampshire (and French prisoners of war in the 1790s) [ Law & Order ]
… an estimate of the town’s population during the 18th century, see Renaud Morieux, ‘French Prisoners of War, Conflicts of Honour, and Social Inversions in England, 1744-1783’, The Historical Journal (n° 56, vol. 1, 2013), p. 55-88. Henry …
Community | Conviviality | French Revolution | Friendship | Travel | War
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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]
… an unconscious love and reverence Of human nature; hence the human form To me became an index of delight, Of grace and honour, power and worthiness. Meanwhile this creature—spiritual almost As those of books, but more exalted far; Far more …
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Sovereignty (in Hobbes's philosophy) [ Political & Moral philosophy / Philosophy ]
… by the rivalry that existed between men, whose foremost sentiment was not cohesion, but the comparative passions of honour and glory, condensed into a desire to dominate. This was the universal inclination of humanity. Nor were social …
Civility | Conflict | Friendship | Sovereignty | Violence | War
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Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… that Harley’s support was insufficient. The relationship would always be an unequal one. 5 . Daniel Defoe, An Appeal to Honour and Justice (London: J. Baker, 1715). We find evidence of this inegalitarian relationship in Defoe’s …
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William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… more and more in the cares of this fashionable world, may, on the contrary, help to speed you in the race of glory and honour and immortality (…)’. 10 As a matter of fact, the threat of unsociability – at the time of his ‘conversion’ or … of having delivered our country from the greatest of her crimes and rescued her character from the deepest stain of dishonour’ ( An Appeal 108-109). His enactment of the Christian hero’s virtues did not estrange him from true politeness 20 …
Abolition | Activism | Benevolence | Charity | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Philanthropy | Religion | Slavery
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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… that it belonged to myself, and was much more so when I found it was a present from a Gentleman that I have so great an honour for. […] I am observ’d to have my Box offner [ sic ] in my hand than those that have bin [ sic ] used to one these …
Collecting | Consumption | Emotions | Fashion | Friendship | Luxury | North America | Snuff
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Stefan Zanović [ Travel / Art and Literature ]
… officer, Augustus John Hervey (1724-1779), but concealed the marriage so that she could retain her position as maid of honour to the Princess of Wales. The marriage failed and she became the mistress of Evelyn Pierrepont, second Duke of …
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