… amongst its readers. 4 . Sir Richard Steele, The Christian Hero: An Argument Proving that no Principles But those of Religion Are sufficient to make a Great Man, seventh edition (London: Jacob Tonson, 1722), p. 59. 5 . Tatler 5, 21 April …
… and commercial society’. 6 In The Present State of Great Britain (1716), it was declared that: ‘next to the purity of religion we are the most considerable of any nation in the world for the vastness and extensiveness of our trade’. 7 …
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… whatever was delivered with an air of confidence; so that there was hardly any topick, if not one of the great truths of Religion and Morality, that he might not have been incited to argue, either for or against it.‘ (Boswell 734) …
… at which women were invited to participate in discussion about topics that mattered (moral philosophy, political events, religion, criticism) as well as gossip and rumour. Repeated representations of the tea-table in the early eighteenth …
… to the guests gathered at her salon. 9 As for the conversation at Lespinasse’s salon, Grimm observed, ‘ politique, religion, philosophie, contes, nouvelles, rien n’était exclu de ses entretiens’. 10 Above and beyond the allure of the …
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… their personalities as charismatic ‘men on horseback’ who could break through old traditions and forge new nations. 17 Religion remained an important source of charismatic power in the age of Enlightenment: aside from famous churchmen such …
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… of Letters allowed for the free exchange of ideas across national borders, in a community comprised of different religions, classes, and genders. Members of different religious affiliations and from different nations, members born to …
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… e l'Illuminismo slavo-meridionale’, in Patrizia Del Piano, Marina Formica and Anna Maria Rao (ed.), Il Settecento e la religione (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2018), p. 81-97. 5 . Janet Ross, Three generations of English Women: …