Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… of the middling-sort death notice: ‘When an obscure grocer or tallow-chandler dies at his lodgings at Islington , the news-papers are stuffed with the same parade of his virtues and good qualities, as when a duke goes out of the world’. 9 …
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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