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By the end of the sixteenth century, the common word "civil," growing from notions of chivalric gentilesse, became opposed to "barbaric" and was extended (at first in 1600 in William Vaughan's moralistic Golden-Grove) to the conduct of the individual, the household, and the country, seen as correlative and even homologous. And here creates the gentilesse of the period so well that when, late in the story, Knightly angrily grabbed Emma's arm, the audience around me gasped. And here creates the gentilesse of the period so well that when, late in the story, Knightly angrily grabbed Emma's arm, the audience around me gasped. |
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