 | Henry Brooke - 1859 - 496 pages
...but, would I be understood when I speak to others also, I must speak with the people ; I must speak in common terms, according to their common or general...it is heard, all agree in the general idea of a man some way elevated above the vulgar. Yet, perhaps, no two living are precisely agreed respecting the... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - Etiquette for men - 1860 - 344 pages
...Gentleman" by Brooke are so admirable that I need mako no apology for quoting them entire. He says ; " There is no term, in our language, more common than...is heard, all agree in the general idea ,of a man some way elevated above the vulgar. Yet, perhaps, no two living are precisely agreed respecting the... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...with biographical preface by Charlea Kmgsley, w.4.1 ¡«tied in 1872. (Macruillaa & Co.)] There is nu term in our language more common than that of "Gentleman;"...it is heard, all agree in the general idea of a man some way elevated above the vulgar. Yet perhaps no two living are precisely agreed respecting the qualities... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - Etiquette - 1873 - 340 pages
...Gentleman" by Brooke are so admirable that I need mako no apology for quoting them entire. He says; "There is no term, in our language, more common than...it is heard, all agree in the general idea of a man some way elevated above the mlgar. Yet, perhaps, no two living are precisely agreed respecting the... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - Etiquette - 1875 - 344 pages
...so admirable that I need make no apology for quoting them entire. He says ; " There is no term, hi our language, more common than that of ' Gentleman...it is heard, all agree in the general idea of a man some way elevated above the vulgar. Yet, perhaps, no two living are precisely agreed respecting the... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 504 pages
...of this work, with biographical preface by Charles Kingsley, was Issued In I872. (Maemillan & Co.)] There is no term in our language more common than...it is heard, all agree in the general idea of a man some way elevated above the vulgar. Yet perhaps no two living are precisely agreed respecting the qualities... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 460 pages
..."What is a Gentleman?" are sure to remain popular with readers of all classes. WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN? is no term in our language more common than that of...it is heard, all agree in the general idea of a man in some way elevated above the vulgar. Yet perhaps no two living are precisely agreed respecting the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...but, would I be understood when I speak to others also, I must speak with the people ; I must speak in common terms, according to their common or general...it is heard, all agree in the general idea of a man some way elevated above the vulgar. Yet, perhaps, no two living are precisely agreed respecting the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...but, would I be understood when I speak to ¡ others also, I must speak with the people ; I must speak first wife's, he came to her, and said, Now Isabel,...spake first to you of marrying me ; she said, Indeed, some way elevated above the vulgar. Yet, perhaps, no two living are precisely agreed respecting the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 pages
...What is a Gentleman ?" are sure to remain popular with readers of all classes. WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN? THERE is no term in our language more common than...it is heard, all agree in the general idea of a man in some way elevated above the vulgar. Yet perhaps no two living are precisely agreed respecting the... | |
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There is no term in our language more common than that of gentleman ; and, whenever it is heard, all agree in the general idea of a man some way elevated above the vulgar. Yet, perhaps, no two living are precisely agreed respecting the qualities they... 
