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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… and dignity of all the other parts, and exhibits their affections as in a Glass. For from it are not only taken signs of health, diseases, and imminent death; but also most clear tokens of the very disposition, manners and affections of the …
Aesthetics | Beauty | Conduct | Femininity | Manners | Women
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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… parties, card-playing, the central role of the tea-table, and a conversation where books 5 – they could be exchanged – health matters and politics featured prominently. More enjoyed these social occasions and wrote: ‘ I dined at the Adelphi …
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… death in 1699, he became a member of the House of Lords until his ultimate retirement from active politics (due to ill health) in 1702. From that point onward, the pen became his political weapon. H e conceptualized a cu ltural politics …
Affection | Catholicism | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Manners | Politeness | Whigs | Wit
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