 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 Seiten
...Thucydides Manners: "One learns manners from those who have none." Persian proverb Manners, defined: "Good manners is the art of making those people easy with...fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company." Jonathan Swift, c. 1720 277 Mediation: The process by which a third party (or group of parties), whose... | |
 | Beat Affentranger - 2000 - 194 Seiten
...manners. He opens the argument by pointing to a parallel between public laws and rules of good manners. "As the best law is founded upon reason, so are the best manners." If there are unreasonable laws, Swift implies, it is not reason as such that should be blamed, but... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 Seiten
...— but are awarding or denying you very high prizes when you least think of it." — Emerson "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 company." — "Don't shake hands too eagerly." — Pythagoras... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 2003 - 552 Seiten
...a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting. — Teodore H. White • Good manners is the art of making those people easy with...fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. — Jonathan Swift • Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or... | |
 | Shyamal Bhattacharjee - 2004 - 100 Seiten
...to know mankind in general than man individually. Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing. * * Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. * Money is not required to buy one's necessity of the soul. Men are what their mothers made them. *... | |
 | 1869 - 546 Seiten
...alderman. " I did, sir." « Then pray, where was your face before it was washed ?" REAL MANNERS. — Good manners is the art of making those people easy with...fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. — Swift A FRAGMENT. COMFORTABLY ensconced in our sanctum, we are smoking a " Partaga"; a genuine... | |
 | 1856 - 1162 Seiten
...fancy that others dp not see us, because our eyes are shut. — Mason's SelfKhowledye. «~^»ш » Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. HANNIBAL AS A GENERAL. Hannibal in his 28th year was nearly of t!;e same age at which Napoleon Bonaparte... | |
 | 1894 - 588 Seiten
...result of good sense, good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. Swift says, "Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse." It is the art of saying and doing the best thing in the kindest way. La Bruyere says, " A man's worth... | |
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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. 
