Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… through their personal achievements and merit. 1 . Margaret R. Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780 (University of California Press, 1996), p. 209. Definitions of ‘gentleman’ in Dr Samuel … middling-sort himself, advised readers of his Familiar Letters of 1741, written as a series of letters between family and friends, on appropriate sociability: ‘[…] what Company to chuse, and how to behave in it’. Sobriety, good …
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