Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… 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 culture. … Sobriety, good sense and virtue were the characteristics to be sought in a friend. In conversation a man should be ‘frank and unreserved’ but should also know when to speak and when to allow another his turn. 5 A more overtly didactic … Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-1815 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). … Benevolence … Middling sort … Politeness … Rank … Gentleman …
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