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 …
… A place of unruly, licentious behaviour in the seventeenth century, it became a centre of mixed sex sociability, ranking just behind London, as a beacon of new social interaction. A city which started as a market town 5 evolved into a …
… other comestibles by those in the middle and upper stations of life, tea preparation was undertaken by the hands of the ranking women of the family, who made the tea-drink in the presence of the company assembled to drink it. While servants …
… who figure in them were law lords who worked their way up through their profession’. 6 Such societies and clubs include Rankenian Club (founded in 1717); the Select Society (instituted as a debating society in 1754); the Oyster Club (its …
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… up undesirable social manners or for only fraternising amongst themselves. 16 Some criticism even came from within the ranks. George Legge, Viscount Lewisham, for example, wrote of the embarrassment generated by his ‘half-drunk’ and ‘most …