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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
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Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… after a tragic event. This was the case during the Stilton match (6 May 1789) opposing Mendoza and Humphreys. William Ward, a pugilist, had travelled to Stilton with his fraternity to watch the boxing match but was challenged to fight by a drunken blacksmith. The death of the blacksmith under the fists of Ward provoked an outcry of indignation, the Scots Magazine advocating for instance ‘a total stop to such savage … Art of Boxing, a guide for scholars detailing how the sport was practiced by famous pugilists (Mendoza, Humphreys, Ward …). In the preface, he argued that the three requisites for a good boxer were strength, courage and art, and the …
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Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]
… , while the tavern’s popular reputation for vice and profligacy was encouraged in works by writers such as Ned Ward 3 and by artists such as William Hogarth. Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress sets its third scene, known as the orgy … chaotic depraved behaviour and the sex trade. 2 . See for example The Spectator No. 49, Thursday April 26, 1711. 3 . Edward Ward, The London-Spy Compleat. In Eighteen Parts 3rd ed. (London, 1700), see for example the first part, November 1698, …
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Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
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Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… it had developed an agenda to direct English arts and letters, with a particular emphasis on journalism and opera. 1 . Edward (Ned) Ward, The Secret History of the Clubs (London: 1709) The practices of the Kit-Cat Club were relatively formalised. It met … on the Strand and the Upper Flask tavern in Hampstead for summer meetings. By 1704 Anne’s attitude was softening towards the Junto, yet the Club continued to grow increasingly political. The following year, one Tory wrote that ‘from …
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Household Words (1852) [ Practices ]
… banker, Bonnel Thornton the wit, and half-a-dozen other gentlemen, met together to found a new asylum for the insane. Towards this object they put down, before separating, one guinea each. In a year from that time the windmill had been given … additional madhouse, was mixed, as was usual in that age, a curious degree of unconscious cruelty. Coercion for the outward man, and rabid physicking for the inward man, were then the specifics for lunacy. Chains, straw, filthy solitude, darkness, and starvation; jalap, syrup of …
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Freemasonry [ Associational culture / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
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The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… or a Young Sheriff at a County-Assizes . After we had mutually dispatch’d our Complements to each other, and I had Awkwardly return’d, in Country Scrapes, his All-a-mode Bows and Cringes, he would needs prevail with me to Dine with him … of their Practice hath render’d them like a Path-way , by common Treading , Nasty and Infertile, he ransacks their Wardrobe, strips them of their Plumes, and Discards ’em; who are forc’d to fly to some common Bawdy-House for Refuge, … take an Opportunity to do him such a piece of Service, if he gives him but the least Item of his slender Affections towards his Help-mate . And I have often heard him say, that Women are always the best Patients, especially if they Die …
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Methodism [ Spirituality / Associational culture / Religious Belief ]
… Dissent Methodism North America Sermon The development of Methodism in Britain and in colonial America from the 1730s onward brought a redefinition of religious sociability along with theological and liturgical innovations. John Wesley and … way of reproach, without their approbation or consent‘. 3 1 . The Works of John Wesley, vol. 18, [1739], eds. W. Reginal Ward and Richard P. Heintzenrater (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1988), p. 124. 2 . George Whitefield, The Nature and … that all your own (if it be possible) may agree with Truth and Reason; but have a care of Anger, Dislike, or Contempt toward those whose Opinions differ from yours. You are daily accused of this: (And indeed, what is it, whereof you are not …
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