Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... The Gentle Life Series. Printed in Elzevir, on Toned Paper, and handsomely bound, forming suitable Volumes for Presents. Price 6s. ench; or in calf extra, price 10s. 6rf. I. THE GENTLE LIFE. Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character of Gentlemen and Gentlewomen. Seventh Edition. "His notion of a gentleman is of the noblest and truest order. .... The volume is a capital specimen of what may be dune by honest reason, high feeling, and cultivated inteflcct. . . . A little compendium of cheerful philosophy, ."--Daily News. "Deserves to be printed in letters of gold, and circulated in every house."--Chambers's Journal. "The writer's object is to tench people to be truthful, sincere, generous to be humble-minded, but bold in thought and action."--Spectator. "Full of truth and persuasiveness, the book is a valuable composition, and one to which the render wilt often turn for companionship."--Morning Post. "ft is uith the more satisfaction that we meet with a new essayist who delights without the smallest pedantry to quote the choicest wisdom of our forefathers, and who abides by those old-fashioned Christian idens of duty which Steele and Addison, wits and men of the world, were not ashamed to set before the young Englishmen of 1713."-- London Review. *' Altogether the book is sterling; admirable both for its sound sense, freedom from sentimentality, ami yet thoroughly Christian in feeling as well as principle."--Literary Churchman. II. ABOUT IN THE WORLD. Essays by the Author of " The Gentle Life." "It is not ensy to open it at any page without finding some happy idea." Morning Post. '* Another characteristic merit of these essays is, that they make it their business, gently but firmly, to apply the qualifications and the corrections, which...