Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-21

his sword when he heard, from behind the
closed visor of his opponent, the name OF Bay
ard. Eighty years later came Sir Philip Sid
ney, the English gentleman ''par excellence
he whom grave William the Silent saluted as
"my MASTER" The browning glory of that
beautiful life was his death, at the age of thir-
ty-two, on the field OF Zutphen, which is thus
described, GAS he came upon the field, seeing
the veteran Lord Marshal, Sir William Pei
ham, lightly armed, with chivalrous shame
that he, young knight, should be so much
better protected, he threw off his cuisines; and
it was to this, what we may term Difference to
age, and noble self-regardlessness, that he
owed his wound; for, fighting with gallant
ry that drew plaudts from the foe, lie was hit
in the thigh by musket ball. As he was
borne from the field, he asked for water, to
quench the raging thirst caused by such
wound; but, as he lifted the cup to his lips,
observing by the roadside a dying soldier,
| who threw up at it a CHASTITY, wisttul look, he
handed the cup back to his attendant to give
it to the soldier, saying, "This mans necessi-
died, and all Europe mourned. Now this
GROWING act of the best gentleman in Europe
is equalled if not surpassed every day in our
own hospitals, and on our own battle-felds, -
the wounded soldier putting aside his own
need, for the greater need at his side,-show-
ing how gentlemanhood has grown and spread
in the world. The sweet, deep waters of this
beautiful life rise like fountain in the desert
to refresh the soul. The gentleman that Ches-
terfeld created is, thank God passing away,
the poor, superficial outside thing could not
bear the wear and tear of life, and a nobler
ideal is dawning, the fine gentlemanliness OF
st. Paul begins to be understood and appre-
ciated, and outside shams disappear before
the requirements of a more ting standard
"Make my son gentleman" said poor
woman to the King of Scotland, whom she had
placed under obligations to her, but the king
said, 81 can make your son a nobleman:
cannot make him a gentleman
A gentleman must be so from the core out
ward, and the training, that gives this nobility
of God confers patent far transcending that
of kings. Kemelin Digby says, ''In the let
tiers of Richmond, Clarenceux, king of arms,
in the reign Of Henry VII, the gentlemen
are named before noblemen. Sir James Law
renee justly censures DIR. johnson for saying
in his dictionary, "a gentleman is one Of
good extraction, but not noble;" an instance
Of the modern blunder of confoundiDg nobili-
ty with peerage. The knights and squires of
| England" continues Sir James, 'preferred
being styled the gentry, to being styled the
nobility; they were logicians enough to know
that axiom, "Omne maj US continet minus"
and they, being allowedly gentlemen, could
never dream that their nobility could be con-
tested; and the peers styled the nobility,
not because they were the only mobiles, but
because, as there were many peers who were
not gentlemen, they cOuld not collectively be
styled the gentry of the upper house. The
| peer, therefore, is not always at the head; he
may be at the tail of his family. Such was
the integrity and independence ascribed to
simple gentlemen, that kings were warned
not to disregard their judgment. Their dig
nifty was esteemed equal to that of kings, upon
the principle, urged by Plato, where he dis
courses upon the royal discipline, and says,
"Whoever shall possess this virtue, whether
he hold public office, or be but Il private
man, is justly styled royal, according to this
discipline"
Francis l., writing to the emperor Charles
", signed himself g first gentleman of
Frances" and Henry ~. used to say, that
his quality as gentleman was the noblest title
that he possessed. This rare jewel of Eu-
ropean courts, il gentleman, should be the
natural and splendid development of the men
OF Christian republic. There can never be
any rules given for the manners of gentle
man, for every gentleman makes his own
manners. They come, without thought, out
| of his heart, as he strives to make all around
him feel happy and at ease, and are ''ingrained
and spontaneous, like his talk IA gentle
man" says Calvert, "may brush his own
shoes or clothes, or mend or make them, or
roughen his hands with the heve, or foul
them with dye-work or iron-work; but he
may not foul his mouth with lie." ga gen.
tleman is habitualy accommodating and con.
siderate, prompt for petty service as well as
capable of large. In his heart there is CEN
trail tenderness which is ever purcolating in
living streams to the surface, making his de.
meanor sympathetic and welcome. Refined
generosity and spontaneous unselfshness
| characterize HIM.
How much this noble type of gentleman
hood is needed among us we all know. The
condition of our streets show it, and our
schools had better miss some intellectual train
ing for the sake of encouraging this nobler
development. This nobility, which is higher
than any kings, is within the reach of every
republican boy, let him grow up to it and the
Republic is safe, for every form of meanness,
and oppression, and cruelty, and wrong,
would be brushed out of it by this great host
OF Bayards and Sidneys, by this army of chris
tian gentlemen.
The gentleman, too, is, IN his serene poise,
lord OF circumstances, standing king over his
own fate, and Tennyson's song in the 'Idylls'
is true picture of his untroubled heart as he
treads along the road of his life.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the
proud:
Turn thy wild wheel through sunshine storm and
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