The ideal of a gentleman, or, A mirror for gentlefolks : a portrayal in literature from the earliest times / by A. Smythe-Palmer.

  • Palmer, Abram Smythe.
Date:
[1908]
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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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    honour and honesty, and to have faith in consecrating your- self to a pure, energetic and disinterested course of action ; unflinching, unrelaxing, undespairing. The consciousness of having done your duty, fulfilled your destiny, and increased your one talent to ten, a hundred, or a thousand talents, shall fill your soul with an enlarged joy, a living and abundant fountain of peace, a solid satisfaction which neither wealth nor the world’s praise can bestow. 1857, W. Davies, A Fine Old English Gentleman, pp. 65-6. And which is the sum of all [I pray] that you may be the faithful servant of Almighty God, to live in His fear, and die in His favour. Amen. 1660, W. Higford, Institution of a Gentleman (Harleian Misc., 1812, ix. 599). THE END.