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The Spectator, No. 433 (17 July 17 1712) [ Concepts ]
… their Motions, a Softness in their Voices, and a Delicacy in their Complections. As this mutual Regard between the two Sexes tends to the Improvement of each of them, we may observe that Men are apt to degenerate into rough and brutal … a perpetual League, Offensive and Defensive, so that if any Foreign Potentate offered to attack either of them, both the Sexes fell upon him at once, and quickly brought him to Reason. It was remarkable that for many Ages this Agreement …
Politeness | Conversation | Periodicals
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Amusements Serious and Comical (1730) [ Places / Practices ]
… The Ladies that have an Inclination to be Private, take Delight in the Close Walks of Spring−Gardens , where both Sexes meet, and mutually serve one another as Guides to lose their Way, and the Windings and Turnings in the little … … "The Ladies that have an Inclination to be Private, take Delight in the Close Walks of Spring−Gardens , where both Sexes meet, and mutually serve one another as Guides to lose their Way." … Taken from Thomas Brown, The Works of Mr. …
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
… caused the appearance of new forms of middle-class sociability. The tea-table is a case in point, around which the two sexes gathered, read periodical essays together, which provided subject matter to polite conversation. Periodicals, … coedited by the poet Ambrose Philips and a circle of Hanoverian Whigs, typically ambitioned to teach the readers of both sexes how to ‘philosophize’, 2 a term which meant both to ponder philosophically but also to exchange about philosophy … as masquerading were repeatedly described as dangerous and scandalous because disguise gave too many freedoms to the sexes. The Spectator consistently satirised lower-rank male clubbing in essays on the two-penny club, 9 the ugly …
Commerce | Correspondence | Femininity | Periodicals | Politics | Women
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Parish churches [ Institutions ]
… Particularly in premodern times, when attendance was expected if not mandatory, they accommodated members of both sexes, different age groups and representatives of poorer as well as more prosperous inhabitants. This entry focuses on … Particularly in premodern times, when attendance was expected if not mandatory, they accommodated members of both sexes, different age groups and representatives of poorer as well as more prosperous inhabitants. This entry focuses on …
Architecture | Assemblies | Catholicism | Churches | Dissent | Hierarchy | Politics | Religion | Towns
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Lyonell Beacher's Valentine Greatrakes (1665) [ People ]
… one of the three dayes in the week that he hath appointed for touching diseased and distemper'd persons of all ages and Sexes) I stayed above at Capo Coyne that night, and went early in the morning to Affans, to a certain house about a …
Medicine
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On the Lycée (1792) [ Practices ]
… and Monsieur d'Artois, and was soon resorted to not only by men of letters, but by the most fashionable persons of both sexes. Lectures are given at the Lycée by the most celebrated professors at Paris, on natural philosophy, chemistry, …
France | Education | Science
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Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation (c. 1713) [ Practices ]
… and visiting, or the more pernicious ones of play, drink, and vicious amours; whereby the nobility and gentry of both sexes are entirely corrupted both in body and mind, and have lost all notions of love, honour, friendship, generosity; … by the poets of that age, had assemblies at their houses, where persons of the best understanding, and of both sexes, met to pass the evenings in discoursing upon whatever agreeable subjects were occasionally started; and although …
Conversation | Audience
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Of Refinement in the Arts (1777) [ Concepts ]
… allures the wise; vanity the foolish; and pleasure both. Particular clubs and societies are every where formed: Both sexes meet in an easy and sociable manner; and the tempers of men, as well as their behaviour, refine apace. So that, …
Commerce | Refinement | Luxury | Charity | Corruption | Democracy | Disorder | Happiness
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