Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… political classes and to stake a claim to inclusion in national politics by the middle class. 9 . Lord John Perceval, Faction Detected by the Evidence of Facts (Dublin: for G. Faulkner, 1743), pp. 95-6, The Connoisseur, excerpted in the …
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