...Marilyn Roberts During the long eighteenth century, benevolence was thought to be the greatest of all virtues. In her later novels especially, Jane Austen emphasized its primacy, showing that benevolence must be taught, practiced, and perfected through rigorous self-analysis and the repudiation of...

... Task and several other works, Cowper depicts himself as a benevolent caretaker who generously provides shelter, food, and protection for his apparently grateful pet hares, but this representation of pet keeping coexists uneasily with the more skeptical and impartial accounts of interspecies hospitality...

... imagine and promote an idea of civil society governed by norms of a benevolent “politeness.” One function of the new culture of politeness was to reconcile readers to the massive increase in military activity. This essay will explore the process of reconciliation in the two most influential periodicals of...

... indistinguishable from love or benevolence, as those qualities are rationally conceived and directed (Politi- cal Justice, 620). It is the Golden Rule. I count forty-two uses of “generous” and six of “generosity” in the third edition of Political Justice. In St. Leon, “generous”’ occurs forty-nine times and...

... the antithesis of the last known eighteenth-century Oroonoko offshoot: Thomas Bellamy’s The Benevolent Planters, published and performed (if only twice) in 1789. In this short, musical play, the prologue promotes abolition, while the plot closes disappointingly with grateful African slaves...

.... By directing its invective toward the dual targets of the theatrical fund and the avaricious actor/manager Garrick, the farce implies that Garrick used the fund to create a mask of benevolence that only barely obscured his miserly ambition, a charge that followed him far beyond the farce itself...

... origin of sentimental culture in Britain — in the benevolent deism of Thomson, the bourgeois morality of Richardson, the 120 Eighteenth-Century Life reformist novels of Sarah Scott and Sarah Fielding, or the comic-erotic aes- thetics of Sterne — determines how one defines its longer trajectory...

... introduced is invariably attached to him. Can it be believed that this race of men are by nature mean, avaricious, and unprincipled?6 Edgeworth, abashed, wrote back, The Correspondence between M. Edgeworth and R. M. Lazarus 3 3 Your polite, benevolent and touching letter has given me much...

... technically, what counts is not knowledge or faith or representations, but, in particular, the practice of a virtue: charity—where that involves not just benevolence but also practical love for others. As Adams himself tells the coarse and avari- cious parson, Reverend Trulliber, whoever “is void of...

... links these throughout to issues of ambivalence and affirmation. He shows how France, throughout colonial and postcolonial history, will be torn between its benevolent, liberal impulses, religious at first, then humanitarian, and its desire to conquer and profit...

... human and free with the achievement of full literacy. Such simple benevolence does not seem especially transcen- dent and ethereal. Notwithstanding these faults, Work in Hand should alert readers to impor- tant gaps in our understanding of language and communication during the eighteenth century. The...

... most bloody too, for it cost the allies themselves that morning above eleven hundred men (Works, 2:543). Thomas Keymer remarks that rather than exempli- fying selfless and heartfelt benevolence, Toby s war- gaming in the gar- den shows him to be grossly defective in fellow feeling. 25 Whether or not...

... that of benevolent physician, to charlatan, to toyman, and finally, to entrepreneur. Sloane thus serves as an index to the changes in the history of collecting. By the eighteenth century, collecting had become endemic to British culture. In the medieval period, churches frequently housed...

...) the reputation for solving the problem of scurvy. One of the reasons that books about Cook keep being written is that he is a fi gure encrusted with myths: the myth of his conquest of scurvy, the myth of his benevolence toward indigenous peoples, the myth of his role as active agent of...

... piety and benevolence of the Christian as respected for the dignity and elevation of the philosopher” (Romance, p. 245). Nor is it purely accidental that Adeline’s true father displays middle-class Dis- senting virtues; he is “benevolent, mild, and contemplative...

... reconciliation of animal experimen- tation with a scientific practice rooted in Hartleyan principles of benevo- lence. In the introduction to the History,Priestley repeats David Hartley’s advice in the Observations on Man (1749) that “benevolence and piety are our only true guides” into natural philosophy.14...

... refers to the breakdown of community, as Mr. Spectator has imbibed some of the country ethos of tightly con- nected, familial association. Mr. Spectator, though identifying with the justice s benevolence, transcends simple absorption or imitation of the bar- onet s techniques of judgment to ask how he...

... confi rms his belief in self-determination, the capacity and responsibility of choice that is the birthright of our divinely exalted status. Taking philosophical support from Dugald Stewart’s example of a “man of benevolence,” he gives divine authority to his union of aesthetics and economics...

... will give full scope and exercise to the Social Passions” (111). Thus it is through “virtue” — ​which Nettleton associates with “benevolence” and that which is “beneficial to mankind in general” — ​that we can achieve “the greatest pleasure” and “most substantial happiness” we are capable of (260...

... figure of Ragan. He represents the most flagrant breach of the conven- tional stage Irishman of the late eighteenth century, a remarkable turn away from the benevolence and good humor of Sheridan’s Lucius O’Trigger or Dennis O’Bryen’s A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed (1783)   2 0 1 Richard...