Importantly, these early societies served as finishing schools where young men of the upper working and lower middle classes could define and adopt "gentlemanly" behavior.
Instead, he simply wanted to find an alternative solution to the problems of gentlemanly reputation.
The gentlemanly exchange of research materials was confounded by the unexpected liveliness of the objects themselves.
But it does not necessarily exclude a prominent role for gentlemanly capitalism in promoting imperial expansion.
For the hopes of professional geological consultants were overtaken by the reformation and revitalization of the gentlemanly amateur tradition.
Untroubled by doctrinal issues, never burdened by thoughts of conversion, they assimilated at the college the gentlemanly culture and political skills of a constitutionalist regime.
Patronage was an extension of ordinary gentlemanly intercourse, by the same means.
The very frivolity of such practices is important: their unproductive nature is, in fact, exactly what is gentlemanly about them.
