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Updated: June 13, 2025
A gentleman, 'tis true, may be known in the meanest garb, but it admits not of a doubt, that he would be better received into good company genteely and fashionably dressed, than was he to appear in dirt and tatters.
I censured the coarse invectives which were become fashionable in the House of Commons , and said that if members of parliament must attack each other personally in the heat of debate, it should be done more genteely. JOHNSON. 'No, Sir; that would be much worse. Abuse is not so dangerous when there is no vehicle of wit or delicacy, no subtle conveyance.
He will not carry a knife with him to wound reputation, and pay double a reckoning, rather than ignobly question it: and he is full of this ignobly and nobly and genteely; and this mere fear to trespass against the genteel way puts him out most of all.
"Decidedly, Manicamp, you are a great man." "Hein! I know that." "I am to start then for Etampes?" "Directly." "I am to go to the Comte de Guiche with this order?" "He will give you a similar one for Monsieur." "Monsieur will approve?" "Instantly." "And I shall have my brevet?" "You will." "Ah!" "Well, I hope I behave genteely?" "Adorably." "Thank you."
Let it be one part of your study, then, to learn to set genteely in different companies, to loll gracefully, where you are authorised to take that liberty, and to set up respectfully, where that freedom is not allowable.
"Decidedly, Manicamp, you are a great man." "Hein! I know that." "I am to start then for Etampes?" "Directly." "I am to go to the Comte de Guiche with this order?" "He will give you a similar one for Monsieur." "Monsieur will approve?" "Instantly." "And I shall have my brevet?" "You will." "Ah!" "Well, I hope I behave genteely?" "Adorably." "Thank you."
All our public functionaries have been viewed round, examined closely, caressed mildly, and sometimes genteely maltreated; our parochial divinities, who preside over the fate of the poor; our municipal Gogs and Magogs who exhibit the extreme points of reticence and garrulity in the council chamber; our brandy drinkers, chronic carousers, lackered swells, pushing shopkeepers, otiose policemen, and dim-looking cab-drivers have all been photographed, framed, and hung up to dry long ago; our workshops and manufactories, our operatives and artisans, have likewise been duly pictured and exhibited; the Ribble has had its praises sung in polite literary strains; the parks have had their beauties depicted in rhyme and blank verse; nay but this is hardly necessary the old railway station, that walhallah of the gods and paragon of the five orders of architecture, has had its delightful peculiarities set forth; all our public places and public bodies have been thrown upon the canvas, except those of the more serious type except places of worship and those belonging them.
You eat and drink poorly, you are clothed very meanly the same suit serves you in summer and winter you go barefoot, and for all this you take no money, though it is a pleasure to get it; for, after a man has acquired it, he lives more genteely and more at his ease.
"I follow," said Cask. "But you mutht be genteel; you muthtn't t stread as me. I like nithe people." "Well, a soldier isn't exactly genteel," said Cask, "but I'm not so terribly uncouth." "Tread on it," said the hedgehog, "else it will bite you, ever so genteely." The adder reared its neck and rustled away. "Stop!" shouted the hedgehog, attacking the snake.
The edifice was small, but the altar and pulpit were handsome, and though the windows were unstained, the light was mellowed by buff inside blinds. The seats were by no means filled, and the congregation was composed of people whose appearance denoted that many belonged to the labouring class, and none to the Brahmin caste of millionnaires, though all were neatly and genteely apparelled.
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