But honesty was a characteristic that was routinely attributed to them, and that was reckoned part and parcel of gentility itself.
Undoubtedly, as this notion of metropolitan gentility evolved so did other ' provincial ' notions of ' middling ' decency and respectability.
Truthful testimony was thus seen as a ready concomitant to gentility.
There was a literary as well as a social context to prompt reiterated definitions of gentlemanliness, namely, the earlier literary discourse of gentility.
Ideal for the majority of academics who equate using the passive style with gentility.
In response, a number of promoters refigured their prospects in ways that actually reinforced the terms of a familiar gentility.
And the role of gentility was therefore going to be central to the fortunes of experimental philosophy.
The language and tone of instructional books about wax flower modelling highlight the gentility and respectability of modelling and looking at wax flowers.
