Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… his clients and business contacts. Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), 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’. … 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 Most Important Occasions … (London: Rivington and J. Osborn, 1741), …
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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