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A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians (1797) [ Practices / Concepts ]

… can compare these delightful complacencies with the frivolous pleasures of dissipation or the coarse gratifications of sensuality. It is no wonder, however, that the nominal Christian should reluctantly give up, one by one, the pleasures of …

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Thomas Hobbes, De Cive (1647) [ Concepts ]

Sovereignty | Death | Equality

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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]

… by mawkish sensibility? ‘True Benevolence is the only possible Basis of Patriotism, and I am afraid, that what with sensuality and Vanity, and yet more disgusting Pride – true Benevolence is a rare Quality among us. Sensibility indeed we …

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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]

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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]

… secretion exuded a strong musky odour. Perfumes and wig powders were made with civet epitomising luxury, decadence and sensuality for much of the eighteenth century. Both an aphrodisiac and a perfume, civet was perhaps one of the most …

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