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Excerpt from The Guards, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel A Guannsum is a being sui generis, not in the vulgar interpretation of the swinish multitude, but in the most refined and sublimated acceptation of the word an individual select, distinct, and separate from the soldier or civilian of any other kind. Birth, rank, and fashion, hover round the standard of the Guards but above all, royal presence, the air of the court, (which must add a courtly air to a martial appear ance, ) all lend lustre to the warrior and the beau. His habits, as well as his habiliments, differ from the cavalry and infantry of the line his ton or fashion is peculiar to the corps, which gives, instead of borrowing, a goat or polish to others in the army and in high life. The Line has des often to ton da gamison but the Guards have a de portment, dress, and address of their own. By this it is not meant to assert, that a Guardsman never borrows any thing; he may par hasard borrow a trifle, from a rouleau at a gaming-table, to anheiress at a watering-place and (mirabile dictu possibly his neighbour's cara sposa at country quarters, pour passer is tcms but he never condescends to as sume an iota of style, elegance or refinement, from any source beyond the brigade; whilst, on the con trary, envying and admiring youths copy and imitate His Majesty's Guards with the extremest exertion and attention imaginable; and they (the Guards) are decidedly (as we say) the prototypes of the day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.