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Royal Academy Instrument of Foundation (1768) [ Practices / People ]
… shall be an Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, and Designs, which shall be open to all Artists of distinguished merit ; it shall contiilue for the public one month, and be under the regulations expressed in the bye-laws of … shall be an Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, and Designs, which shall be open to all Artists of distinguished merit ; it shall continue for the public one month, and be under the regulations expressed in the bye-laws of …
Academies | Art | Architecture
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Dialogues Concerning Education (1745) [ Concepts / Practices ]
… us under the Orders of domestic Discipline. Simp . I am sorry you think our Sex pay so little Regard to your Sense and Merit, as to treat you like Children – if the End of all our Pursuits, is only to get possession of you, it is a shrewd …
Education | Conversation | Gender | Friendship | Children
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Sterne's ghost at the Hôtel d'Angleterre (1862) [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… don't ask ME to read them? As a scholar yourself you must know that—” “Well, then, Robinson?” “Robinson, I am told, has merit. I dare say; I never have been able to read his books, and can't, therefore, form any opinion about Mr. Robinson. … sighed Mr. Sterne. “I wonder who is the mode in London now? One of our late arrivals, my Lord Macaulay, has prodigious merit and learning, and, faith, his histories are more amusing than any novels, my own included.” “Don't know, I'm sure …
Inn | France | Tourism
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Rules for Walking the Streets (1737) [ Places / Practices ]
… to hear, whether the Man who wears it be a fine Gentleman , or a Coxcomb . If a proud Fellow, of more Fortune than Merit, puts a contemptible Look , or an escaping Eye on an Acquaintance, because he is in lesser Circumitances than …
Conduct | Conversation | Public sphere
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Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… success. One way of achieving this was through claiming gentlemanly status through their personal achievements and merit. 1 . Margaret R. Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780 (University of … 1747), I, pp. 136, 232. As middling-sort men’s confidence in the availability to them of gentlemanliness by personal merit grew, so too did this identity take on more oppositional overtones. They began to contrast favourably their … composition, values and ideals of the readership. In these notices, sociability was important in defining a man’s merit, provided it was allied to good sense and industrious habits. The July 1804 obituary of seventy-four-year-old Revd …
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
Aristocracy | Art | Commerce | Exhibitions | Literature | Patronage | Subscription
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Of the Standard of Taste (1757) [ Concepts ]
… to; and every action is blamed or praised, so far only as it is beneficial or hurtful to the true believers. The merit of delivering true general precepts in ethics is indeed very small. Whoever recommends any moral virtues, really …
Taste | Religion | Charity
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The Play-bills, 1830 [ Practices ]
… old play-bill is a reverend and sensible bit of paper, pretends to no more than it possesses, and adds to this solid merit an agreeable flimsiness in its tissue. But there are two rogues, anticipators of us respectable interlopers, of …
Theatre | Advertisement
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Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… them; is a humourist, very supercilious, and wrapped up in admiration of his ow n country, as the only judge of his merit. His air and look are cold and forbidding; but ask him to sing, or praise his works, his eyes and smiles open and …
Correspondence | Women | France | Eloquence
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