The Ideal of a Gentleman or a Mirror for Gentlefolks
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Excerpt from The Ideal of a Gentleman or a Mirror for Gentlefolks: A Portrayal in Literature From the Earliest Times When I first projected this book some twenty years ago, my intention was to make a Florilegium or Anthology of some of the more striking passages of literature which I met in my reading illustrative of ´the most venerable of all titles, the title of a Gentleman´. As the years passed and my material grew, my Anthology has turned into something like a cyclopaedia of Gentlehood. Urceus coepit - amphora exit; begun a flask, it ends a cask. It is hoped that the reader has gained by its growth. Certainly a collection of literary extracts dealing with the most attractive phases of the noblest character that man has attained to, which aimed at something like completeness, seemed worth making; and I cannot but think that every lad among our ´growing gentlemen´ of England would be the better of having such a manual of Gentlehood placed in his hands as a mirror whereby to dress himself. Whatever has been written by divines or philosophers, by poets or dramatists, by novelists or essayists, in praise or exemplification of this beautiful character, is here hived up for the benefit of others who may not have the same opportunity, time or industry, for ranging over a field of flowers so wide and extensive that it includes at one extreme the Egyptian moralist, Ptah-hotep, B.C. 3300, and at the other Mr. William Watson. In Spenser´s words - ´Who so wil seeke, by right deserts, t´ attaine Unto the type of true Nobility, And not by painted shewes and titles vainc Derived farre from famous Auncestrie: Behold them both in their right visnomy Here truly pourtray´d as they ought to be.´ About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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