Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… a sociability that now had to conform to other qualities making the new gentlemen: industriousness, sincerity, honesty, benevolence. Lord Chesterfield's instructions to his son on the art of pleasing were now regarded as superficial, … intersects with many other entries in DIGIT.EN.S. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Benevolence Middling sort Politeness Rank The concepts of gentlemanliness and sociability were intimately entwined in … a sociability that now had to conform to other qualities making the new gentlemen: industriousness, sincerity, honesty, benevolence. Lord Chesterfield's instructions to his son on the art of pleasing were now regarded as superficial, …
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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