William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… did not enjoy the company even of his relatives, while he relished conversing with them in his letters. When his grand-children visited him, he kept to his study. 3 With his friends, he preferred epistolary exchanges to conversation as … Gilpin’s words, scholarly education is thus perceived as the means to learn social life and must be understood by young children. Teaching how to live together in society was one of the main concerns of the headmaster in his school at Cheam. …
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