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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… to other seminal ideas in Shaftesbury's thought, such as politeness, toleration, liberty, and cosmopolitanism. Given the influence of the Earl's thought across Europe, any account of the decidedly British contribution to Enlightenment … foundation of virtue, genuine religion, and happiness ( Preface 58 and 50). Amalgamating such Stoic and Latitudinarian influences, Shaftesbury sees 'sociability [as] part of the divinely ordained plan for mankind'. 3 In fact, to become … to other seminal ideas in Shaftesbury's thought, such as politeness, toleration, liberty, and cosmopolitanism. Given the influence of the Earl's thought across Europe, any account of the decidedly British contribution to Enlightenment …
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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… on his ideas relating to sociability. 1 Even so, there are elements of his life that are worth highlighting for the influence they may have exerted on his own sociability and his attitudes towards it. One important step was his decision … Lawrence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), p.27, 31. For all his reputation as a figure central to the moderating influence of The Spectator , Steele could also be a highly partisan polemicist on behalf of the Whigs (he wrote 25 … signal of defiance against the controversial Peerage Bill which he saw as endangering the constitution by expanding the influence of the House of Lords) saw only occasional room for the mass of the people on whose labour and service polite …
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Portable directories [ Print culture ]
… as well as in a wider public sphere. Not only did they fulfil practical functions but more generally they increased the influence of middling sort values on the fabric of social life. 1 The landed elites, whose status and prestige could no …
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… ‘warped from its original purpose,’ serving effectively as a mechanism for the dissemination of licentiousness via the influence of ‘custom, fashion and example.’ Sociability in this sense required tempering by a ‘firmness in mind,’ which … followed the lead of Montesquieu in pursuing the question of how it was dramatically reshaped across societies by the influence of climate, geography, race, religion, and history. 12 A crucial question for this generation was how …
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Spring Gardens, airy streets conducive to social encounters and shopping, such as Milsom Street (one can think of its influence on the plots of some of Jane Austen’s novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion ). In this respect, John Wood the …
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… in the long eighteenth century. The 1830s also saw declining use of assembly rooms and the gradual waning of elite influence. The assembly rooms in Beverley declined in usage and became less central to social life in the town by the …
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Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… rise of their own Accord’ ( The Spectator , n° 57, 5 May 1711). In this way, Addison’s sociable ideal had an important influence on later theorists of polite sociability, such as David Hume, who also believed that heterosociability was a …
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Merchants [ Commerce ]
… aimed for pleasure, the merchant’s politeness aimed for profit. Politeness permitted and controlled open competition for influence, jobs and customers and was seen as the logical consequence of commerce. Most importantly, however, politeness …
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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… like the Society of the Dilettanti (originating out of Grand Tour friendships formed in the early 1730s), had an influence that endured even after travel had ceased. 18 Fully part of the eighteenth-century world of sociability, the …
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