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… Chambers’s 1741 Cyclopaedia expanded upon Philips’s definition, outlining the audience and purpose of the assembly as ‘a stated and general meeting of the polite persons of both sexes; for the sake of conversation, gallantry, news, and play’. … 12 7 . Steven Gores, Psychosocial Spaces: Verbal and Visual Readings of British Culture, 1750-1820 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000), p. 71. 8 . Oliver Goldsmith, The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq. (London, 1762), p. …
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