The ideal of a gentleman, or, A mirror for gentlefolks : a portrayal in literature from the earliest times / by A. Smythe-Palmer.
- Abram Smythe Palmer
- Date:
- [1908]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The ideal of a gentleman, or, A mirror for gentlefolks : a portrayal in literature from the earliest times / by A. Smythe-Palmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![with all his heart, whether prosperous or in calamity, and his neighbour as himself ; who also wmuld work— For Christes sake, for every poure wight Withouten hire, if it lay in his might.’ K. H. Digby, Broad Stone of Honour, Godefridus, 1844, pp. 213-4- ‘ Quid prodest vincere Saracenos, et vinci a vitiis ? ’ [Hum- bert, Gurther, 116, 'What advantageth it to overcome the Saracens, and then be overcome by vices ? ’], for the vanity of titles seemed worthy of being ranked among vices : titles did not add to nobility. K, H. Digby, Broad Stone of Honour, Godefridus, p. 224. To be consistent with their religion, to retain the dignity of their nature, the consciousness of their own honour, the spirit of that high chivalry which was their boast, men ought to have disdained those evils which were only material and bodily, ' and therefore could be no bigger than a blow or a cozenage, than a wound or a dream ’. Gentlemen of honour might have learned a lesson in this respect from a poor cloister monk, Luis Ponce de Leon, who, after a confinement of five years in the Inquisition without seeing the light of day, being at last released, and restored to his theological chair, an im- mense crowd being assembled to hear his re-opening lecture, as if no such melancholy interval had taken place, resumed his subject with the usual formula, ‘ Heri dicebamus ’, etc. 1848, K. H. Digby, Broad Stone of Honour, Morus, p. 112. Fenelon has well said, ' in Jesus Christ there is no more distinction of slave or noble, bond or free ; that in Him all are noble by the gifts of faith ’ ; that, as St. Hilary said before him, ‘ we are all equal in Jesus Christ, and the highest degree of our nobility is to be of the number of the true servants of God ’. 1848, K. H. Digby, Broad Stone of Honour, Morus, p. 241. When Charles I advised Sir Henry Gage to have so much discretion in his carriage that there might be no notice taken of the exercise of his religion, the governor replied not in the language of men who regard religion as of secondary import-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29008529_0128.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
