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Hospitality

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Hospitality at University of Surrey

Language: English Studies in English
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
University website: www.surrey.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Hospitality
Hospitality refers to the relationship between a guest and a host, wherein the host receives the guest with goodwill, including the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers. Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt describes hospitality in the Encyclopédie as the virtue of a great soul that cares for the whole universe through the ties of humanity.
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So saying, with despatchful looks in haste
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 331.
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Hospitality sitting with gladness.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Translation from Frithiof's Saga.
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And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Jesus, Matthew 10:14-15 (KJV).
Giant penguins bigger than most humans roamed the Earth millions of years ago. Analysis of 37-million-year-old penguin fossils by a team of researchers from the La Plata Museum in Argentina shows that the so-called ‘colossus penguin’ stood at staggering 2 metres from toe to beak tip.
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