Tucker had published in 1836, "than to be sprung from a race of men without fear and without reproach—the ancient cavaliers of Virginia?"! George Balcombe: A Novel... - Page 22 by Beverley Tucker - 1836 - 286 pages Full view - About this book
...be no higher honor than "to be sprung from a race of men without tear and without reproach — the ancient cavaliers of Virginia . . . men in whom the...as to render them alike incapable of servility and selfishness."55 Such men have a divine right to rule over others and Balcombe, for his part, is "well...