I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

Antoninus in many ways was the ideal of the landed gentleman praised not only by ancient Romans, but also by later scholars of classical history, such as Edward Gibbon or the author of the article on Antoninus Pius in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:

Given these connotations, dandyism can be seen as a political protestation against the rise of levelling egalitarian principles, often including nostalgic adherence to feudal or pre-industrial values, such as the ideals of " the perfect gentleman " or " the autonomous aristocrat ", though paradoxically, the dandy required an audience, as Susann Schmid observed in examining the " successfully marketed lives " of Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron, who exemplify the dandy's roles in the public sphere, both as writers and as personae providing sources of gossip and scandal.

Members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science had been complaining about the lack of a good term at recent meetings, Whewell reported in his review ; alluding to himself, he noted that " some ingenious gentleman proposed that, by analogy with artist, they might form word scientist, and added that there could be no scruple in making free with this term since we already have such words as economist, and atheist — but this was not generally palatable ".

It defines infractions such as absence without leave and contains the popularly-known phrase, " Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman ".

The greater social respectability of the established church, in which some of Anning's gentleman geologist customers such as Buckland, Conybeare, and Sedgwick were ordained clergy, was also a factor.

: This may include the gentleman juggler — using everyday objects such as hats, canes, plates, wine bottles and cigars ; comedy juggling — the juggling skill is secondary to the comic character and jokes of the performer ; sport themed — the performers dress in sporting attire and juggle sports equipment such as tennis racquets, footballs, or even snooker balls ; traditional circus style — presenting pure skill with precision, skill and panache.

Even the most senior, renowned and professionally-accomplished nuclear-trained officers that Rickover had personally selected, such as Edward L. Beach, Jr., had mixed feelings about " the kindly old gentleman ," or simply " KOG ", as Rickover became euphemistically known in inner circles.

Despite the failure of the Cantiones of 1575 some of his other collections sold well, while Elizabethan scribes such as the Oxford academic Robert Dow, the Windsor lay clerk John Baldwin and a school of scribes working for the Norfolk country gentleman Sir Edward Paston copied his music extensively.

Cronin's books (' The Judas Tree ') in which a poor girl ( not used to upper-class gentility ) is taken up by a wealthy gentleman, who woos her, buys her precious things ( such as a beautiful dress and gem necklace ) and takes her to the opera:

During the heyday of the gentleman scientists, many figures contributed to both fields, and early papers in both were commonly read at professional science society meetings such as the Royal Society and the French Academy of Sciences – both founded during the seventeenth century.

Clive deposed later to the House of Commons that, " to the best of his remembrance, he gave the gentleman who carried it leave to sign his name upon it ; his lordship never made any secret of it ; he thinks it warrantable in such a case, and would do it again a hundred times ; he had no interested motive in doing it, and did it with a design of disappointing the expectations of a rapacious man.

British gentleman and young men were advised to dispense with aspects of politeness considered too feminine, such as the constant desire to please, and to adopt less superficial qualities that suggested inner virtue and courtesy toward the ' fairer sex.

The significance of a right to a coat of arms was that it was definitive proof of the status of gentleman, but it recognised rather than conferred such a status, and the status could be and frequently was accepted without a right to a coat of arms.

A frontier line between classes so indefinite could not be maintained in some societies such as England, where there was never a " nobiliary prefix " to stamp a person as a gentleman, as opposed to France or Germany.

At several monarchs ' courts, various functions bear titles containing such rank designations as gentleman ( suggesting it is to be filled by a member of the lower nobility, or a commoner who will be ennobled, while the highest posts are often reserved for the higher nobility ).

The fine gentleman of the play, drinking his mistress's health in Nantes brandy from six in the morning to the time he waddled upon the stage in the evening, had toasted himself up to such a pitch of vigour, I confess I once gave Amanda for gone.

She also said that " The tone in which he speaks of royalty is unlike anything which one sees in history, even of people hundreds of years ago, and is most reprehensible ... Of George IV he speaks in such shocking language, language not fit for any gentleman to use ".

The letter instructed the admirals and captains that the bearer was to be shown " such kindness as you shall judge fit for a gentleman, both in accommodating him in your ship and in furthering his improvement ".

* ... he still wanted numberless appendages to make him a fine gentleman, such as a fashionable tailor and hairdresser, an unblushing confidence, together with a long train of etceteras.

They typically include such stock characters as a handsome young gentleman and his beautiful and rich fiancée, an actress with past glory and an alcoholic husband, a clumsy aspiring young author, a retired colonel, a quiet middle-aged man no one knows anything about who is supposedly the host's old friend, but behaves suspsiciously and a famous detective.

One such visitor asked Lambert's servant to allow him entry as he wished to ask Lambert's advice about fighting cocks ; Lambert leaned out of the window and told the servant to " tell the gentleman that I am a shy cock ".

Placing under this a crystal glass so that the piece of iron was suspended inside the goblet, the old woman commanded the figure to strike the iron against the glass in such a manner as she wished, saying at the same time to the figure: " I command you, Mandragora, in the name of those to whom you are bound to give obedience, to know if the gentleman present will be happy in the journey which lie is about to make.

The art of gentleman scholars tended to idealize retreat into the beauties of nature and contemplation, an idea parallel to the travel literature of Su Shi and Yuan Hongdao ; painting by Song Dynasty artist Ma Yuan, c. 1200 – 1230.

Since the early years of the 17th century it was not unusual for the well-educated gentleman, ( virtuosi ), to take up architecture as a gentlemanly activity ; a pursuit widely accepted as a branch of applied mathematics.

Suitability rested on the phrase " eminent men ", originally the test applied was one of wealth or social status, as any man entitled to bear a coat of arms was expected to be a gentleman.

The term fidalgo came to be applied to a category analogous to the English " gentleman.

By the standards of his time a gentleman like Wren would not generally join an artisan body ; however the workmen of St Paul's cathedral would naturally have sought the patronage or " interest " of their employer, and within Wren's lifetime there was a predominantly gentlemen's Lodge at the Rummer and Grapes, a mile upriver at Westminster ( where Wren had been to School ).

Federico's brilliant court, according to the descriptions in Baldassare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano (" The Book of the Courtier "), set standards of what was to characterize a modern European " gentleman " for centuries to come.

Given to a North American rider who demonstrates the highest of standards of personal and professional conduct both on and off the racetrack, Hawley has had the lifelong reputation of being a gentleman and a man of honor.

Mark Girouard has written of the " quiet good taste expected of a country gentleman " against which Philip may have chafed in his younger years, apparently torn between the standards of Country Life and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The critical sense and sceptical attitude of the citation of medicine from the shackles of priestcraft and of caste ; secondly, the conception of medicine as an art based on accurate observation, and as a science, an integral part of the science of man and of nature ; thirdly, the high moral ideals, expressed in that most " memorable of human documents " ( Gomperz ), the Hippocratic oath ; and fourthly, the conception and realization of medicine as the profession of a cultivated gentleman.

Humphries ' other satirical characters include the " priapic and inebriated cultural attaché " Sir Les Patterson, who has " continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it ", gentle, grandfatherly " returned gentleman " Sandy Stone, iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa, Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton, sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle, high-pressure art salesman Morrie O ' Connor and failed tycoon Owen Steele.

Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the chaine or cauezzan, the trench, and the martingale: written by a gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said art London: Henrie Denham 1584

A certain John Henning, charged with running away with a chest of tea, defended himself with the claim that " he was ordered to carry it by a gentleman in black " who told him to carry it to Petticoat-lane.

During these social evenings each lady and gentleman present was “ called upon in turn for a song ” as they sipped tea or coffee.

* " Simon Buckingham "-An English gentleman, originating as a deliberately unconvincing impersonation of Simon Cowell ( to tease Eric the Midget ), who frequently uses English phrases such as " tea and crumpets " and " smoking fags.

But Judge Marvin Jones, senior member of the Court, is an elderly gentleman who lives at the nearby Metropolitan Club and desires to walk to work.

That these settlers survived at all is due in large measure to Captain John Smith, a pirate turned gentleman.

Henry Purcell Senior, whose older brother Thomas Purcell ( d. 1682 ) was also a musician, was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of King Charles II of England.

John Gostling, then at Canterbury, but afterwards a gentleman of His Majesty's Chapel.

Edmond Malone asserted that " his appearance at first sight impressed the spectator with the idea of a well-born and well-bred English gentleman.

Never quite losing his Devonshire accent, he was not only an amiable and original conversationalist but a friendly and generous host, so that Fanny Burney recorded in her diary that he had " a suavity of disposition that set everybody at their ease in his society ", and William Makepeace Thackeray believed " of all the polite men of that age, Joshua Reynolds was the finest gentleman.

In order to support the canonical scientific views at the time, which explored the natural world within Paley's framework of a divine designer, The Earl of Bridgewater, a gentleman naturalist, commissioned eight Bridgewater Treatises upon his deathbed to explore " the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation.

They included " a pleasant conceit of Vere, earl of Oxford, discontented at the rising of a mean gentleman in the English court, circa 1580.

* Henry Dashwood — a wealthy gentleman who dies at the beginning of the story.

To the east was the ramshackle LC & D Railway, on the west the up-market LB & SCR — the Brighton Line, which went to Worthing, the fashionable, expensive town the gentleman who found baby Jack was travelling to at the time ( and after which Jack was named ).

In January 1727, William was entered as a gentleman commoner at Trinity College, Oxford.

:“ This gentleman has for several years stood at the head of our commercial community and he carries with him the esteem and kind wishes of the whole foreign society, honourably acquired by a long career of private charity and public spirit .”

He was signed for the Royal Navy at age seven, it being common to sign on a " young gentleman " simply to gain experience at sea required for promotion.

When he was nominated to serve at the capital, Zhang was escorted by carriage — a symbol of his official status — to Luoyang, where he became a court gentleman working for the Imperial Secretariat.

alt = Full-length portrait of a young man seated at a table-he wears a finely tailored dark suit, knee breeches with white stockings, and a wig in the style of an English gentleman.

This was exemplified in the person of George Hooper, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, whom Busby described as " the best scholar, the finest gentleman and will make the completest bishop that ever was educated at Westminster School ".

Jones portrays a masked gentleman known as " The Scarecrow ," who travels at night on horseback with three others and returns home to Sussex, an ordinary family man.

And there was a croquet court, where a Gibson Girl might be seen playing against a gentleman with a wonderful mustache ... It was quite the thing to elope by the old Chesapeake and Ohio canal boat, be married at the Ferry by the tolltaker, who was a retired parson, and honeymoon at Hilltop House.

He did well at Sandhurst, which gave him the " officer and gentleman " bearing that was to be his trademark.