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Show The True (irntlrman. The true gentleman is God's servant, the world's master and his own man; virtue is his business, study his recreation, contentment his rest and happiness his rewarJ. God is his fattier, the Church is his mother, the saints his brethren, all tliat need him his friend; devotion his chaplain, chastity his chamberlain, chamber-lain, sobriety his butler, temji-ram-e his enok, hospitality his housekeeper, housekeep-er, Providence his steward, charity his treasurer, piety his mistress of tlie houe and discretion his porter, to let in or out a most fit This is his whole family, made up of virtues, and he Is true master of the house, and he is necessitated to take the world on his way to heaven, heav-en, but he walks through it as fast as he can, and all his buims by the way Is to make himself and others happy. Take him In two w ords a man and a Christian. Ar. |