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Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… mid-eighteenth century, informal discussion groups in taverns had turned into discussion clubs by establishing their own rules and membership dues. Some, in turn, transformed into debating societies in the early 1770s and moved into dedicated … with respectability, as is testified by many elements: the rituals of public speaking arbitrated by a president, many rules on impolite behaviour (including fines for swearing or interrupting speakers), the removal from taverns into … city and by newspapers advertisements. The Robin Hood Society was a well-structured society, with officers, a book of rules, rituals, the publication of questions and summaries of debates. It also had a sense of civic responsibility and …
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… thus creating a fashion among worldly circles. In 1742, Edmond Hoyle’s Short Treatise on Whist , in which the rules of the game are defined, became a best-seller. Faro (derived from the word Pharaoh ) was one of the oldest games of … In 1705, the ‘Groom Porter’ was given full power by Queen Anne “to supervise, regulate, and authorize (by and under the Rules, Conditions and Restrictions by the Law prescribed) all manner of Gaming within this Kingdom”, The London Gazette … in which the ability to play the most fashionable games was seen as a prerequisite for entering polite society. The rules of etiquette and the mastery of sociable pastimes were integral to the conduct manuals of the time, as part of …
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Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… were financed to link these remote regions to ‘civilisation'. The clans had the reputation of following different social rules. When Lowland societies and ladies in drawing-rooms debated on husbandry and the status of women, the Highland …
Clans | Clubs | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland | Tradition
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… decipher the reading material they confronted (in the form of street- or roadsigns) also gesture towards other assorted rules for ‘civilized’ forms connected with reading, including its p ossibly dangerous, licentious, political uses . In …
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David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… attained, because human life, according to him, is governed by chance rather than by reason: life cannot be reduced to rules or methods. What is left, in the end, is the fact that philosophy, according to the sceptic, or perhaps according …
Clubs | Enlightenment | France | Philosophy | Republic of Letters | Salons | Scotland | Societies
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