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Excerpt from The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character Tis a curse to the land, deny it who can, That self-same boast, I'm a gentleman.' But very many better and more reective men than he accept the term as one which conveys much in a small com pass, and which is in itself legitimate. Mr. Thackeray very well sums up the duties of a gentleman in a few queries which can onlyohave one answer. What is it to be a gentleman says he; is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.