Making a Mouth in a Contemptuous Manner
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In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilisation in Early Modern England
by Keith Thomas.
Yale, 457 pp., £25, June 2018,978 0 300 23577 7 Show More
by Keith Thomas.
Yale, 457 pp., £25, June 2018,
“... ages, sexes and conditions’. Some argued that Native Americans had their own codes of civility: Roger Williams wrote that the Algonquian people with whom he had lived were ‘of two sorts (as the English are)’, some ‘rude and clownish’, but most having ‘a savour of civility and courtesy … both amongst themselves and towards strangers’. Having ... ”