Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… entries in DIGIT.EN.S. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Benevolence Middling sort Politeness Rank The concepts of gentlemanliness and sociability were intimately entwined in eighteenth-century British … ). By the early eighteenth century, gentlemanly sociability was very closely 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 … 1741), Letter VII, pp. 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 …
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