Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… and friends, on appropriate sociability: ‘[…] what Company to chuse, and how to behave in it’. Sobriety, good sense and virtue were the characteristics to be sought in a friend. In conversation a man should be ‘frank and unreserved’ but … 13-15, and VIII, pp. 16-18. 6 . The Young Gentleman and Lady Instructed in such Principles of Politeness, Prudence and Virtue, 2 vols (London: Edward Wicksteed, 1747), I, pp. 136, 232. As middling-sort men’s confidence in the availability … libertinism in their social lives. Had Chesterfield been ‘in a middling station of life’, continued the reviewer, then ‘virtue would have appeared more essential’. 7 The rational, domestic sociability of the middling sort and their proper …
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