 | Henry Brooke - 1859 - 496 pages
...the elements of modern gentility. Among those rude and unpolished people, you read of philosophers, of orators, patriots, heroes, and demigods ; but you never hear of any character so elegant as that of — a pretty gentleman. When those nations, however, became refined into what... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...the elements of modern gentility. Among those rude and unpolished people, yon read of philosophers, of orators, patriots, heroes, and demigods; but you never hear of any character so elegant as that of — a pretty Gentleman. When those nations, however, became refined into what... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 504 pages
...the clemente of modern gentility. Among those rude and unpolished people, you read of philosophers, of orators, patriots, heroes, and demigods; but you never hear of any character so elegant as that of — a pretty Gentleman. When those nations, however, became refined into what... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 pages
...the elements of modern gentility. Among those rude and unpolished people you read of philosophers, of orators, patriots, heroes, and demigods; but you never hear of any character so elegant as that of — a pretty gentleman. When those nations, however, became refined into what... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...the elements of modern gentility. Among those rude and unpolished people, you read of philosophers, of orators, patriots, heroes, and demigods ; but you never hear of any character so elegant as that of — a pretty jeutleman. When those nations, however, became refined into what... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 510 pages
...the elements of modern gentility. Among those rude and unpolished people, you read of philosophers, of orators, patriots, heroes, and demigods; but you never hear of any character so elegant as that of — a pretty Gentleman. When those nations, however, became refined into what... | |
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... the modern. In all ancient or dead languages we have no term any way adequate whereby we may express it. In the habits, manners, and characters of old Sparta and old Rome, we find an antipathy to all the elements of modern gentility. Among those rude... 