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Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]

… in DIGIT.EN.S. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Politeness Rank middling sort merit sobriety The concepts of gentlemanliness and sociability were intimately entwined in eighteenth-century British culture. … of letters between family and friends, on appropriate sociability: ‘[…] what Company to chuse, and how to behave in it’. Sobriety, good sense and virtue were the characteristics to be sought in a friend. In conversation a man should be ‘frank … sociability which intersects with many other entries in DIGIT.EN.S. … Politeness … Rank … middling sort … merit … sobriety … Gentleman …

Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]

… to be a sociable affair entailing polite enjoyment of exotic food. This luxury good became an emblem of gentility, sobriety, fellowship and sociable relations to such an extent that, as attested by the dinner register of the Royal …

Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]

… for the early eighteenth century is one of a ‘reformation of manners’, manifested in rising politeness, moderation and sobriety, particularly associated with the gentlemanly class. 16 Yet, Ward’s works and his sociable habits are a reminder …