Brewer's: Grandison

(Sir Charles). 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 ne'er saw.” Robert Nelson, reputed author of the Whole Duty of Man, was the prototype.

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