Kit-Cat Club
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… PDF available for download from www.opheliafield.com The Kit-Cat’s patriotic cultural agenda sprang from rivalry with France. The Kit-Cats saw themselves as promoting Britain’s cultural reputation on the international stage in the context …
… by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend, Sir Andrew, calls the vineyards of France our gardens; the spice-islands our hot-beds; the Persians our silk-weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature, …
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