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Grandison (Sir Charles)

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The union of a Christian and a gentleman. Richardson’s novel so called. Sir Walter Scott calls Sir Charles “the faultless monster that the world neʹer saw.” Robert Nelson, reputed author of the Whole Duty of Man, was the prototype.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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