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David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… went back to London in 1737, where he published the Treatise (1739-40). In 1739, he returned to Scotland, to work on his Essays , which were published in 1741-42. Unable to secure a position in a Scottish university, he went abroad for a few … refine apace’ (Hume, Treatise , 234 ) – as well as in practice. 4 . David Hume, ‘Of National Characters,’ in Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, A Critical Edition, ed. by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A. Box , 2 vols. (Oxford: … p. 472. Philosophy as the Practice of Sociability Hume used philosophy to enact a form of sociability. The four essays on happiness give an insight into such a process. They were published in the second volume of the Essays Moral …
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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… offer cultural comment (including theatre criticism, poetry and ‘gallantry’, mixed with moral guidance) in a periodical essay format, with some politics and news, lightened with humour. He was nevertheless also a highly partisan polemicist … offer cultural comment (including theatre criticism, poetry and ‘gallantry’, mixed with moral guidance) in a periodical essay format, with some politics and news, lightened with humour. The paper was given a lead by Steele but involved a … offer cultural comment (including theatre criticism, poetry and ‘gallantry’, mixed with moral guidance) in a periodical essay format, with some politics and news, lightened with humour. He was nevertheless also a highly partisan polemicist …
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
… classification on our understanding of human nature. This entry draws from his notebooks, marginalia, letters, poems and essays to show how his conception of social interaction was defined as much by a vast array of theories and writings as … Age with the knowledge and genuine refinements of European culture.’ 4 4 . S.T. Coleridge, The Friend ; A Series of Essays (London: Gale and Curtis, 1812), p. 161. The plan was abandoned and in its stead, Coleridge married Sara Fricker, … classification on our understanding of human nature. This entry draws from his notebooks, marginalia, letters, poems and essays to show how his conception of social interaction was defined as much by a vast array of theories and writings as …
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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, poetry, essays) the term ‘tea-table’ increasingly served as a synecdoche for the sociable assembly. As an idea, the tea-table … as a form of sociability at which conversation and periodical reading, as well as tea, were central. Thirteen further essays (Nos 92, 140, 158, 212, 216, 246, 276, 300, 323, 395, 488, 536, 606) in The Spectator reinforce this trope of the … was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, poetry, essays) the term ‘tea-table’ increasingly served as a synecdoche for the sociable assembly. As an idea, the tea-table …
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Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… in many treatises and manuals but it was Antoine Gombaud, Chevalier de Méré, who first theorised its principles in his essay ‘De La Conversation’. La Conversation veut estre pure, libre, honneste, et le plus souvent enjoüée […] il faut que … ‘On Conversation,’ in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (Dublin: J. Williams, W. Wilson, and R. Moncrieffe, 1775), Essay II, p. 16. 6 . David Hume, ‘Of Essay Writing’, in Essays Moral, Political and Literary, Eugene F. Miller (ed.), (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1987), p. …
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Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]
… comportment in society. The fascination with the historical Brummell also led to numerous, more-philosophically-oriented essays and books about this cult figure. If the historical Brummell was an immensely sociable figure, later writers such … comportment in society. The fascination with the historical Brummell also led to numerous, more-philosophically-oriented essays and books about this cult figure. If the historical Brummell was an immensely sociable figure, later writers such …
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… beauty.' While little material is available about William Gilpin’s sociable connexions and activities, his aesthetic essays, his autobiographical writings and letters help to qualify the image of the asocial theoretician of the … at home (Gilpin, William writes to William , 2, 8, 24, 44) to his concern for the publication and reception of his essays on picturesque beauty. 7 7 . Bodleian Library, Ms. Eng. Let. 6. 27, 43, 49, 51 A socializing holiday-maker? In … of Scotland in 1776), for which he accounted in his notebooks, which were published in the 1780s and 1790s in several essays of ‘observations’. The satirical accounts that were afterwards made of his travels and cartooned by Rowlandson …
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