… closer to that of London taverns. Like the larger London taverns, the Birmingham Hotel had a large assembly room, and prided itself on the elegance of its dining. The designation ‘hotel’ was new in the 1770s, and suggested something that …
… and his authoritative personality, he transformed Bath into a place of fashion and sociability: ‘Regularity repressed pride, and that lessened, people of fortune became fit for society’ (Goldsmith 40). The son of a Welsh gentleman, Nash …
… of trust can only be enforced by covenants of the sword, and through education that favours sociable qualities over pride, which fosters a state of war. A fifth law of nature, is COMPLAISANCE; that is to say, that every man strive to …
… Revolution, in Ireland in the 1730s. 8 The Jacobites crafted elaborate rituals of loyalty in which toasting took pride of place. The sociability of British Jacobites linked by kinship bonds, political patronage networks, espionage …
… 9 Sociability and politeness, in this sense, were outcomes of an evolutionary moral history driven by selfishness and pride. Smith, for his part, did not deny that human nature was a compound of both selfish and sociable principles, but …