Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… decipher the reading material they confronted (in the form of street- or roadsigns) also gesture towards other assorted rules for ‘civilized’ forms connected with reading, including its p ossibly dangerous, licentious, political uses . In …
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
Animals | Beauty | Correspondence | Death | Education | Nature | Philanthropy | Picturesque | Religion | Unsociability
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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
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Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… for in her youth. Very often present but rarely in the limelight, Mary Delany was a very sociable being, abiding by the rules of propriety in all cases and places. Since it originates in her letters, this image may have been a …
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Robinson’s and Friday’s Island [ Nature ]
… God permits evil. 11 Defoe is, in fact, a non-skeptical rationalist, who reveals his adherence to a creed of universal rules governing both the world of nature and the human world. The combination of colloquialism and reasoning in the …
Cosmopolitanism | Deism | Enlightenment | Exploration | Freemasonry | Religion | Solitude
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