… and political reform’ (Cox 4). Hunt’s project was more precisely to create a new collective identity transcending factional politics and to reconstruct the elegant sociability of the early eighteenth century, that is, the construction …
… took the name of Brooks’s in 1778. ‘Brooks’s Club, Betting book’, LMA, Mss Acc/2371/BC/04/073. 6 . This political faction met during parliamentary sessions, usually weekly, until 1763, and continued in a modified form after that date. …
… to gambling between drinking, gambling and duels were frequent. Duels also occurred in political contexts, where factions would easily find a pretext for a duel (Andrew 52-8). In England, it seems that the number of duels had waned by …
… in the works of Robert Strange and Anthony Pasquin, who make abundant use of the words ‘cabal’ or ‘junto’ to condemn factions of artists. 13 For James Barry the root of anti-sociability lies in the undemocratic Council, in the structure …
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… political classes and to stake a claim to inclusion in national politics by the middle class. 9 . Lord John Perceval, Faction Detected by the Evidence of Facts (Dublin: for G. Faulkner, 1743), pp. 95-6, The Connoisseur, excerpted in the …
… some Office, a certain Market−friendship is begotten, which hath more of Jealousie in it than True love, and whence Factions sometimes may arise, but Good will never (DeCi, I, 2, annotation, 91). 4 At the beginning of chapter 11 of …