Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lamartine was brought up in the country; hence his appreciation of nature. He was surrounded by the warmest family influences; hence his tenderness and also his confident and sunny Christinity. At the age of sixteen, he left his studies and led the life of a country gentleman. His reading consisted of the Bible, Ossian, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Bernardin de Saint Pierre; especially Chateaubriand who gave him his taste for melancholy; finally Plato and Petrarch to whom he owed his contion of love considered as a religion...
...courses have come to hold an unique position in the college curriculum, which it will be hard, if not impossible, to fill. His attitude toward the students has always been that of an interested friend and a perfect gentleman, and his influence most beneficial...
Boston Museum-Andrew Mack in "An Irish Gentleman...
Boston Museum-Andrew Mack in "An Irish Gentleman...
...over 40 attending this class. This ticket also admits the holder to Munroe Hall, 67 Warren street, Roxbury, on Monday and Wednesday evenings. Take any Cambridge and Roxbury car. Grand ball, Friday evening, Feb. 18. Tickets, 50c. Private lessons daily by appointment at 67 Warren St., Roxbury. Lady or gentleman teacher as desired...