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.
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