Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… elegance and pleasure of polite conversation became normative for a wide range of oral and printed forms. 6 . John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (London: Harper Collins … period (though the battle against these enemies continued). At the same time, evangelical religious initiatives, from John Wesley (1703-1791) on, were often critical of the worldliness, materialism and superficiality of polite ideals. 7 Also, …
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