 | British essayists - 1823 - 788 страници
...these extensive and compound notions of honour have been long contracted, and reduced to the lsingle one of personal courage. Among the Romans, honour...suit of clothes, a sword by his side, and a watch and snufl-box in his pockets, asserts himself to be a gentleman, swears with energy that he will be treated... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 424 страници
...honour. * A gentleman, which is now the genteel sy* A gentleman is every man, who with a tolerable »uit of clothes, a sword by his side, and a watch and snuff-box...he will cut the throat of any man who presumes to say the contrary. VOL. I. AA 2C6 THE WORLD. 49nonymous term for a man of honour, must, like his Gothic... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 336 страници
...it is not the lie he tells, but the lie he is told of that dishonours him. In that * A Gentlemaii, is every man, who with a tolerable suit of clothes,...a sword by his side, and a watch and snuff-box in bis pockets, asserts himself to be a gentleman, swears with energy that he will be treated as such,... | |
 | Mammon - 1823 - 384 страници
...fashionable code of honour may be reduced to the following points. A man of honour must be a gentleman. Now, a gentleman is every man, who, with a tolerable suit of clothes, and a watch and snuff-boxin his pockets , asserts himself to be a gentleman, swears with energy that... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1828 - 270 страници
...character which I shall now give of a fashionable man of honour. A gentleman,* which is now the gentee * A gentleman is every man, who, with a tolerable suit...a sword by his side, and a watch and snuff,box in bis pockets, asserts himself to be a gentleman, swears with vtrrgy that he will be treated as such,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Esq. Alfred Howard - 1831 - 306 страници
...character which I shall now give of a fashionable man of honour. A gentleman,* which is now the gentee * A gentleman is every man, who, with a tolerable suit of clothes, a sword by liis side, and a watch and snuff-box in his pocket, asserts himself to be a gentleman, swears with... | |
 | William Cramp (author of The philosophy of language.) - 1850 - 126 страници
...pass on to the remainder of the series. Letter Vllf is entitled " Grand council upon the affairs of * A gentleman is every man who, with a tolerable suit...sword by his side, and a watch and snuff-box in his pocket, asserts himself to be a gentleman, swears with energy that he will be treated as such, and... | |
 | William Cramp - 1850 - 206 страници
...on to the remainder of the series. Letter Vllf is entitled " Grand council upon the affairs of % * A gentleman is every man who, with a tolerable suit...sword by his side, and a watch and snuff-box in his pocket, asserts himself to be a gentleman, swears with energy that he will be treated as such, and... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1891 - 302 страници
...who raised him so high, calls him, mon aimable vaurien 2. Letters to his Son, iii. 199. Gentlemen. A gentleman is every man, who with a tolerable suit...he will cut the throat of any man who presumes to say the contrary. Miscellaneous Works^ ii. 202. The Golden Age. People know very little of the world,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 582 страници
...jealous of his HONOUR, and more of a GENTLEMAN. He may lie with impunity, if he is neither detected * A gentleman is every man, who with a tolerable suit...he will cut the throat of any man who presumes to say the contrary. (Note by the author.) nor accused of it : for it is not the lie lie tells, but the... | |
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A gentleman is every man, who, "with a tolerable suit of clothes, a sword by his side, and a watch and snuff-box in his pockets, asserts himself to be a gentleman, swears with energy that he will be treated as such, and that he... 
