Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… be contrasted with the drunken homosocial antics of the elite Hellfire Club or the hot-headed settlement of disputes by duelling. 7 . Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1774, pp. 319-23. Middling-sort gentlemanly qualities were also increasingly …
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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