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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… some places, the headmaster still estimated that his role, when educating young pupils, was to prepare them to live in society. 1 . William Gilpin, Memoirs of Dr. Richard Gilpin … and of his posterity … together with an account of the … better than their persons. 4 2 . For a definition of ‘unsocial sociability’ as the human ‘propensity to enter into society, bound together with a mutual opposition which constantly threatens to break up society’, see Kant, ‘Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Viewpoint’, Cambridge Texts in the History of …
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Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… 259) . ‘Greatrix the Stroker [ was ] Believed in by Boyle‘, 7 the celebrated President of the newly founded Royal Society , and he puzzled and bewitched English society. Even the King, Charles II, 8 as well as other eminent figures at court and in the various institutions of … 84-85. 5 . John V. Fleming, ‘Sanative Contagion Among Cambridge Platonists’, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (159, no. 4, 2015), p. 409-14, p. 410. Accessed September 3, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26159193 6 . The …
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Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… of a particular occasion). Mrs Weichsel is singing from a box, and the foreground is populated by members of fashionable society: between Mrs Weichsel’s box and the tree in the middle stands the famous Duchess of Devonshire, a celebrated …
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