Celebrity [ Publicity ]
… other scorned groups. 3 It took centuries before our contemporary vocabulary of celebrity took shape. 3 . The Old Whig; Or, The Consistent Protestant, 2 vols. (London, 1739), vol. 2, p. 212-16, turns the language of fanaticism against … and politically charged preaching. 11 Sacheverell’s Tory sermons proved to be so provocative that they prompted the Whig government to impeach him for high crimes and misdemeanours in Parliament in 1710. Sacheverell provides a clear … before the later eighteenth century. One could make a case for some of his contemporaries as well, such as his clerical Whig rival, Benjamin Hoadly or his Grub Street nemesis, Daniel Defoe. 13 Both of these figures achieved public notoriety …
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