Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… periodicals that followed in their wake throughout the century; it was also implicit in Shaftesbury’s attempt to equip gentlemen with philosophy as a sign of their politeness. The criteria of polite social interaction were applied to the … Diversions of the Age, Destructive to Soul and Body (London: 1740). 8 . Kate Davison, ‘Occasional Politeness and Gentlemen’s Laughter in Eighteenth-Century England‘, Historical Journal (vol. 57, 201), p. 921-945. When did politeness …
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