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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… The Guardian (1713). He and Addison were associated with Child’s Coffee House and were also members of the Whig Kit-Kat Club, which was both political club and socio-cultural space. Membership gave Steele access to writers, such as William Congreve and fellow soldier-writer Sir John Vanburgh, as well as to an extensive patronage network of Whig leaders. The club’s reputation for genteel sociability was enhanced by a series of portraits painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, including …
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Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee houses.‘ ( The Spectator, n° 10, 12 March 1711) He imagined a society … 433 (17 July 1712). 'On The Lady Manchester' ( b. 1719 ). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703 (3) The Spectator, No. 10 (12 March 1711) The Spectator, No. 68 (Friday, 18 May 1711) The Spectator, No. 69 …
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… to be properly practised' (Müller 210). While Shaftesbury limited such polite conversations to the ' Liberty of the Club , and of that sort of Freedom which is taken amongst Gentlemen and Friends ' ( Sensus Communis, 36 [1.48]), he also … affections, Shaftesbury even aspires to a stable social order that extends from one’s immediate relations, to the 'club', the nation, and finally to all of humanity: 'To love the Publick, to study universal Good, and to promote the …
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