Although almost 225 years, a revolution, a vine-ravaging epidemic and several wars separate us from Jefferson's wine tour, I discovered on a recent trip that it is still possible to explore the celebrated swath of vine-covered hills as the self-described "foreign gentleman" once did.
For George H. W. Bush, as for Prescott, this sense of noblesse oblige was accompanied by a conception of politics and foreign affairs as matters for gentlemen to work out around the table or over drinks, and for most of his career he excelled by hewing to this ethic.
One elderly French gentleman, detecting a foreign accent in my response, asks if I am English.
On top of this news, Albert was informed that gossip was spreading in gentlemen's clubs and the foreign press that the Prince of Wales was still involved with Nellie Clifden.
ECB foreign reserve assets Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union has equipped itself with a politically independent Central Bank, responsible for safeguarding price stability.
The film being shown there is about a young woman on a holiday in an exotic foreign city, who meets a handsome, pipe-smoking gentleman on a sightseeing riverboat and embarks on a sudden but ill-fated romance with him.
Ladies and gentlemen, the truth is that without European funding for foreign and defence policies, the European Union would have remained in the wings instead of at the centre of the world stage.
That is, until she glimpses the gentleman within Aziz during a meeting with a foreign customer.
Through the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, Continental travel was considered educational: young, aristocratic gentlemen completed their studies by learning European languages abroad and visiting foreign courts.
