The ideal of a gentleman; or, A mirror for gentlefolks, a portrayal in literature from the earliest times

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I. The historical idea of a gentleman.--II. Definition of a gentleman.--III. The inwardness or essential quality of a gentleman.--IV. The herald's gentleman.--V. Ancestry.--VI. Wealth and work.--VII. Manners and good breeding.--VII. Traits of gentlehood.--IX. Precepts of gentlehood.--X. The poets' gentleman.--XI. The gentleman exemplified.--XII. Gentlemen of other nations.--XIII. Ironical and abusive acceptation of "gentleman."--XIV. Conclusion. Index
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