… arises not from our living in the world but from the world living in us, occupying our hearts and monopolizing our affections. ‘ ( Thoughts 70) 9 . Letter 25 May 1818 to Mrs Barker Silverton, Barley Wood, Add MS 42511, British Library. …
… clear when we think about the domain of morals and reading’s tendency to foster most intimate forms of experience, affect and connection. 9 Some of the most popular epistolary novels of the time, from Richardson’s Pamela: Or, Virtue …
… Hobbes or, more recently, Bernard Mandeville, that humans were not naturally vested with any sociable propensities or affections in what was sometimes called the ‘ state of nature. ’ This raised a set of further questions, prompted in part …
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… he was dead or not, and when they were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet. 10 The excessive character of this bet testifies to the absurdity of some wagers and of …
… Stand’, Ascot 1876, lettre à destination de Charles Gore, TNA, File 5254, CRES 35/5. Ces aménagements successifs ont affecté les interactions entre les spectateurs en créant des espaces de mixité sociale et parfois, ils servirent de cadre …
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… and Bribery in corrupting Judges’, condemning the latter but describing the former as acts of ‘personal Favour and Affection’ and ‘trifles’. Yet an outraged printed response called this ‘an imaginary Distinction’. 12 Gifts were …
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… Kit-Cat’s political functions, 11 while elderly members such as Congreve and Tonson continued to exchange their mutual affection and nostalgia for the Club’s hey-day in letters and posted gifts. 11 . Such as those of Walpole at Houghton …
… ‘bears a considerable resemblance to that of the sublime, which is one of the most exquisite of all those that affect the human imagination'. 11 To survey the history of scientific progress was to experience the sense of boundless …
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