Guildford, United Kingdom

Hospitality

Language: English Studies in English
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
University website: www.surrey.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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.
Hospitality
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Homer, The Odyssey, Book XV, line 74 (83 in Pope's translation).
Hospitality
So saying, with despatchful looks in haste
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 331.
Hospitality
A host in himself.
Wellington, of Lord John Russell. Related by Samuel Rogers (1839). Paraphrase of Homer's epithet of Ajax. See Alexander Pope's translation of Iliad, III. 293.
When you think about the Earth’s oceans you probably imagine stretches of deep, dark water, exotic marine life and pristine waves. You probably don’t think of vast islands of plastic waste such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an expanse of rubbish which some say is bigger than the continental United States. It was feared that collections of plastic debris like this were growing in line with our increasing rates of plastic production over the past decades. However, scientists have recently discovered that these floating eyesores are mysteriously receding – and that’s actually not a good thing…
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