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    The First True Gentleman A Study of the Human Nature of Our Lord
    The First True Gentleman A Study of the Human Nature of Our Lord
    The First True Gentleman A Study of the Human Nature of Our Lord
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      The First True Gentleman A Study of the Human Nature of Our Lord - Archive Classics

      THE FIRST TRUE GENTLEMAN

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license.

      Title: The First True Gentleman

      A Study of the Human Nature of Our Lord

      Author: Anonymous

      Release Date: July 07, 2012 [EBook #40153]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: UTF-8

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FIRST TRUE GENTLEMAN ***

      Produced by Al Haines.

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      THE FIRST

      TRUE GENTLEMAN

      A Study in the Human

      Nature of Our Lord

      With a Foreword by

      EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D.D.

      BOSTON

      JOHN W. LUCE & COMPANY

      1907

      Copyright, 1907,by

      JOHN W. LUCE & COMPANY

      Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

      The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass.

      A FOREWORD

      The dictionaries and the students of words have a great deal to say,--perhaps more than is worth while,--of the origin of the word Gentleman,--whether a gentleman in England and a gentilhomme in France mean the same thing, and so on. The really interesting thing is that in a republic where a man's a man, the gentleman is not created by dictionaries or by laws. You cannot make him by parchment.

      As matter of philology, the original gentleman was gentilis. That is, he belonged to a gens or clan or family, which was established in Roman history. He was somebody. If he had been nobody he would have had no name. Indeed, it

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