Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… on his ideas relating to sociability. 1 Even so, there are elements of his life that are worth highlighting for the influence they may have exerted on his own sociability and his attitudes towards it. One important step was his decision … Lawrence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), p.27, 31. For all his reputation as a figure central to the moderating influence of The Spectator , Steele could also be a highly partisan polemicist on behalf of the Whigs (he wrote 25 … signal of defiance against the controversial Peerage Bill which he saw as endangering the constitution by expanding the influence of the House of Lords) saw only occasional room for the mass of the people on whose labour and service polite …
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