| 1856 - 570 Seiten
...Contempt, but a little E-eservedness, Respect; and handsome Courtesy, Kindness. J¥lanner0, — Swift. Manners is the art of making those people easy with...fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the Company. . — Hume. A MONG well-bred people, a mutual Deference is affected ; Contempt of others disguised... | |
| John Timbs - 1856 - 378 Seiten
...made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious. — Plutarch. MCCI.XIV. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with...fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. — Swift MCCI.XV. Some men are so covetous, as if they were to live for ever, and otheis so profuse,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1857 - 432 Seiten
...said, " it' was because they smelled carrion." A TREATISE OB GOOD MANNEKS AND GOOD BKEEDING.* GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with...as some lawyers have introduced unreasonable things in to common law, so likewise many teachers have introduced absurd things into common good manners.... | |
| John Timbs - 1859 - 204 Seiten
...manner, or rather a charm that draws the admiration and goodwill of every beholder. — Steele. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with...whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred man in company. — Sivift. The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 Seiten
...corrupted by luxury, the «natural cause of their decay and ruin. BMop Berkeley. MANNEBS— Good. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Swift. MANNEBS— Importance of. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure,... | |
| Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 Seiten
...different methods difPrent men excel; But-where is he that can do all things well. — Churchill. 5. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. — Swift. 6. A miser, if honest, can only be honest bare weight. — Shenstone. 7. He that by the... | |
| Readings - 1866 - 196 Seiten
...circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged animal without it. WHAT IS GOOD MANNERS ? GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse ; whoever makes the fewest persous uneasy, is the best bred man in company. TRUE MERIT. TRUE merit, like a river, the deeper it... | |
| John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 Seiten
...disposition of mind not to offend and the most agreeable way of expressing that disposition. LOCKE. GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with...fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. SWIFT. ONE principal point of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of... | |
| John Lewis Peyton - 1867 - 286 Seiten
...extensive in period, with the lamented Lewis could fail to feel the force of Swift's remark, " Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse ; whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred man in the company." Gifted with the merits which entitled him to the... | |
| 1881 - 946 Seiten
...pretends. IN the year 1882 over 15,000,000 pounds of cinchona bark were imported into Great Britain. GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever IN one manufacturing village near Paris, conmakes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred taining... | |
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