Letters of John Randolph, to a Young Relative: Embracing a Series of Years, from Early Youth to Mature Manhood (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Letters of John Randolph, to a Young Relative: Embracing a Series of Years, From Early Youth to Mature Manhood

Do not, on that account, the dinne ter of the real gentleman, which is the most respectsble among men. It consists not of plate, and equipsge, and rich flying, any more than in the disease which that mode of lifi engenders; but in truth, courtesy, bravery, generosity, and learning, which last, although not essentia? To it, yet dues very mach 'to adorn and illustrate the character of the true gentleman. Tommy Merton's gentlemen were no gentle men, except in the acceptation o'i' innkeepers, (and Yhegreal vulgar, as well as the small;) with whom he who rides 'in a coach and six, is three times as great a gentleman as 'hawho drives a post-chaise and pair. Lay down this as a prin ciple, that truth is to the other virtues, what vital a'irvis to the human system. They cannot exist at ail whhoutd'hund as'the'hody may live under many-diseases, il' supplied with pure airtor'its consumption, so may 'the chamtuwwvm many defects, where there is a rigid attachment to Ni.

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