Courtier-like

[…] in the courtier-like civility of the old Baron, he ſaw nothing but the undiſtinguiſhing manners of a perſon who received every one alike, whom he had no immediate intereſt in conciliating, and who was generally polite, but who, if he never ſaw him again, would forget he had ſeen him at all; […]

As Benedict ſays, "an oak with but one green leaf on it, would have refuſed" to fetch and carry in this cur or courtier-like manner.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a noble race of men.