 | Charles Buck - 1831 - 644 Seiten
...habits of any person ; also ceremonial behaviour or studied civility. Good manners, according to Swift, is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of illmanners. Without some one of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 Seiten
...those people easy with whom wc convene. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred man in the company. As the best law is founded upon reason, so are the manners. And as some lawyers have introduced unreasonable things into common law ; so likewise many... | |
 | Charles Butler (of Philadelphia.) - 1836 - 306 Seiten
...that every one concludes himself equal to the task. GOOD MANNERS.' GOOD MANNERS, according to Swift, is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasyi is the best bred in the company. As the best law is founded upon reason, so «„ are the best... | |
 | 1837 - 860 Seiten
...mortifying accident gained him more credit than he lost by his awkward carving. — Yinmg L*tf' Friend. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse ; whoever makes th< fewest people uneasy is the best bred man in company. — Swift. The three sources of good manners... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 Seiten
...pleased are those who know experimentally that they want talents to please.—Anonymous. 548. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with...whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred man in company.—Swift. 549. To be able to bear provocation, is an argument of great reason, and to... | |
 | 1846 - 110 Seiten
...those one converses -with, is the qualification of ungenerous, little-minded men. — Spectator. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with...makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company. — Swift. By reading, we enjoy the dead ; by conversation, the living ; and by contemplation,... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 Seiten
...the letter being so long, on the plea that he had not had time to make it shorter. REAL MANNERS. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with...fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. — Swift. ECCENTRIC TASTE. George Selwyn was noted for a passion for the details of criminal justice,... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1851 - 888 Seiten
...habits of any person ; also Ceremonial behaviour or studied civility. Good manners, according to Swift, is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of illmanners. Without some one of... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 Seiten
...letter being so long, on the plea that he had not had time to make it shorter. » REAL MANNERS. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with...fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. — Swift. ECCENTRIC TASTE. George Selwyn was noted for a passion for the details of criminal justice,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 Seiten
...fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. — Emerson. MANNERS, GOOD. — Good ' manners, is the art of making those people easy with...makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company. — Swift. MANNERS, GOOD. — Good manners are the blossom of good sense and good feeling.... | |
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GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. 
