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Chesterfield Letter 139 (1765) [ Concepts ]
… convinced that you are in the right, for this is true spirit. What is commonly called in the world, a Man or a Woman of Spirit, are the two most detestable and most dangerous Animals that inhabit it. They are wrongheaded, captious, … offended without reason, and offending with as little. The Man of Spirit has immediate recourse to his sword, and the woman of spirit to her tongue, and it is hard to say which of the two is the most mischievous weapon. It is too usuall a …
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Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… role conversation played in developing not just knowledge but the mind and critical judgement. As late eighteeth-century woman of letters Hester Chapone observed, 'it is almost impossible that an evening should pass in mutual endeavours to … in company, citing their ‘boundless intemperance of tongue’. 15 Instead, an ‘illuminated countenance’ would show that a woman understands what a man is saying almost as 'unequivocally as language would do'. 16 Women’s conversation and …
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Royal Society [ Institutions / Clubs & Societies ]
… nobility’ (Hunter, The Royal Society , 10). Although Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was the first woman to visit the Royal Society in 166, she was not nominated or elected as a Fellow. 9 . Also see Michael Hunter, The …
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Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… compiled a list of additional Mohockish devilry, among them another reference to the tumblers: they ‘put an old woman into a hogshead, and rooled her down a hill, they cut of soms nosis, others hands, and severel barbarass tricks, …
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Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… 7 More generally, Addison finds duelling a thing of the past, suggesting for instance: ‘To speak disrespectfully of any Woman, is Expulsion from our gentle Society. As we are at present all of us Gown-men, instead of duelling when we are …
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