 | 1825 - 610 pages
...every esquire is indisputably a gentleman. And the highwayman, in his manner of taking your purse, and your friend, in his manner of debauching your...however, be allowed to have much of the gentleman."— "Fool of Quality," vol. ii. page 69 and 70. In the excellent work just quoted, we are told what a true... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...And the highwayman, in his manner of taking your purse: and your friend, in his manner of deceiving your wife, may, however, be allowed to have — much of the Gentleman. Plato, among the philosophers, was "the most of a man of fashion;" and therefore allowed, at the court... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 504 pages
...And the highwayman, in his manner of taking your purse; and your friend, in his manner of deceiving your wife, may, however, be allowed to have — much of the Gentleman. Plato, among the philosophers, was "the most of a man of fashion;" and therefore allowed, at the court... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 pages
...And the highwayman, in his manner of taking your purse; and your friend, in his manner of deceiving your wife, may, however, be allowed to have — much of the gentleman. Plato, among the philosophers, was " the most of a man of fashion," and therefore allowed, at the court... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 510 pages
...And the highwayman, in his manner of taking your purse; and your friend, in his manner of deceiving your wife, may, however, be allowed to have — much of the Gentleman. Plato, among the philosophers, was " the most of a man of fashion " ; and therefore allowed, at the... | |
 | 1825 - 600 pages
...every esquire is indisputably a gentleman. And the highwayman, in his manner of taking yoar purse, and your friend, in his manner of debauching your...however, be allowed to have much of the gentleman." — "Fool of Quality," vol. ii. pa-re 69 and 70. In the excellent work just quoted, we are told what... | |
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In taverns and some other places, he who is the most of a bully, is the most of — a Gentleman. With heralds, every Esquire is, indisputably, — a Gentleman. And the highwayman, in his manner of taking your purse; and your friend, in his manner of deceiving... 