… Prints, Paintings, and Limnings, by the Best Masters (London, 1689), folio 1. 6 . Lawrence E. Klein, 'Coffeehouse Civility, 1660-1714: An Aspect of Post-Courtly Culture in England', Huntington Library Quarterly (vol. 59, n° 1, 1996), …
… of Mr Spectator was, despite the inclusion of the country gentleman De Coverley, an overwhelmingly urban world where civility flourished. 6 . Spectator 2, 2 March 1711. 7 . Spectator 65, 15 May 1711. 8 . Spectator 142, 13 August 1711. 9 . …
… behaviour clashed with period ideals of public comportment, not just Christian charity but also fashionable notions of civility and politeness, prompting inner-communal divisions and proceedings in secular as well as ecclesiastical courts. …
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… of polite sociability. A 1705 election tract lamented that the aggressive tactics of low churchmen were ‘a piece of incivility’ and that divisions had become ‘like the raising of a civil war amongst us at every election’. 10 ‘Black-lists’ … Septennial Act in 1716, as polarisation eroded sociability: partisans could hardly be ‘brought to pay one another the civility of the hat’. 12 Elections, it was said, filled the land ‘with drunkenness, opprobrious language, impious oaths …
… from Mandeville’s extreme and licentious conclusions. 7 Hume certainly celebrated the forms of ‘ deference and civility ’ that were essential to the sociable ‘ arts of conversation, ’ but such refinements and politeness were less …
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… groups of working-class ‘blacklegs’, racecourse gamblers often with carefully practised external appearances, aping civility and politeness, were soon also involved, like some wealthy racing insiders drawing on the new more sophisticated …
… A most fashionable exotic mania was turquerie , a commercial and artistic phenomenon aimed at orientalizing European civility. Like chinoiserie , which was mainly considered as a decorative and architectural style creating new spaces of …
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