Regency Culture and Society: Sketch of the Human Passions

In looking through Regency recipes and other household tidbits, I discovered this delightful chart depicting human passions and their correlates. Offering not only insight into what contemporaries thought about the baser human qualities, I think it also provides a nifty adjective list for Reg writers. Enjoy!

The House Book ; Or, Family Chronicle of Useful Knowledge (1826)

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