Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… taste for eloquence. Elocution masters, and even schools thrived. ‘There is some evidence, as well, that schools for the teaching of elocution set up debating societies as arenas in which their pupils could gain practice while publicly … of access to the writings of John Toland and others). Although other debaters defended the Church of England and its teachings, the Robin Hood smacked of heterodoxy. It banned religious questions in the mid-1760s; other societies followed …
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