Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… associated with the concept of refined politeness. This still encompassed the art of pleasing in company and still had elite overtones in, for example, the writings of Lord Shaftesbury (1671-1713). However, the rise of cheaper print media, … of a man of business’ was more important than Latin and Greek, the Classical languages closely associated with an elite rather than a practical education. 6 5 . Samuel Richardson, Letters Written to and for Particular Friends on the … of the middling sort and their proper treatment of women could be contrasted with the drunken homosocial antics of the elite Hellfire Club or the hot-headed settlement of disputes by duelling. 7 . Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1774, pp. …
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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