The Book of Manners: A Guide to Social IntercourseCarlton & Phillips, 1856 - 202 pagina's |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Book of Manners: A Guide to Social Intercourse Carlton & Phillips Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2019 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
able acquaintance acquired actions advantage affectation allow appear attention avoid beauty become behaviour benevolent cause character civility common conduct consider contempt conversation desire discover dress duty ease easy engage equally excellent expression favour fear feel frequently friendship give good-breeding grace habits hand happiness heart important interest keep kind knowledge lady laugh learned least leaves less letter live look low company manners means ment merit mind modesty moral natural necessary ness never object observed occasions opinion particular party pass person pleased pleasure politeness possible present principle profession proper reason received reflection regard respect ridiculous rude rule sense society soon speaking spirit suppose sure talk tell temper things thought tion true turn vice virtue well-bred whole young
Populaire passages
Pagina 132 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Pagina 111 - Whoso discovereth secrets, loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind. Love thy friend, and be faithful unto him; but if thou bewrayest his secrets, follow no more after him: for as a man- hath destroyed his enemy, so hast thou lost the love of thy friend; as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy...
Pagina 88 - Whoever is had (as it is called) in company, for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light ; frequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.
Pagina 71 - ... and public persons of distinguished and eminent posts. It is the manner of showing that respect which is different. The man of fashion and of the world expresses it in its fullest extent, but naturally, easily, and without concern ; whereas a man who is not used to keep good company expresses it awkwardly; one sees that he is not used to it, and that it costs him a great deal ; but I never saw the worst-bred man living, guilty of lolling, whistling, scratching his head, and such like indecencies,...
Pagina 130 - You call them Goods; but if you do not take Care, they will prove Evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost; but if you have no Occasion for them, they must be dear to you.
Pagina 114 - Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for' any good office in life which contradicts the gaiety of the present hour. You may indeed observe in people of pleasure a certain complacency and absence of all severity, which the habit of a loose unconcerned life gives them ; but tell the man of pleasure your secret wants, cares, or sorrows, and you will find that he has given up the delicacy of his passions to the cravings of his appetites.
Pagina 70 - Mutual complaisances, attentions, and sacrifices of little conveniences, are as natural an implied compact between civilized people, as protection and obedience are between kings and subjects ; whoever, in either case, violates that compact, justly forfeits all advantages arising from it. For my own part, I really think, that next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is...
Pagina 75 - I am apt to believe, too, that you would indulge me in that freedom, as far as anybody would. But notwithstanding this, do you imagine that I should think there were no bounds to that freedom ? I assure you, I should not think so ; and I take myself to be as much tied down by a certain degree of good manners to you, as by other degrees of them to other people.
Pagina 69 - Good manners are, to particular societies, what good morals are to society in general: their cement, and their security. And, as laws are enacted to enforce good morals, or at least to prevent the ill effects of bad ones, so there are certain rules of civility, universally implied and received, to enforce good manners and punish bad ones. And indeed there seems to me to be less difference, both between the crimes and punishments, than at first one would imagine.
Pagina 25 - A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies ; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without it.