| John Ogilvie - 1883 - 834 Seiten
...or displeasing; especially, ceremonious behaviour; decent and respectful deportment; civility. Good manners is the art of making; those people easy with whom we converse. 5wj/V. Virtue itself offends when coupled with forbidding manners . Mi.idletcH. Shall we, in our applications... | |
| Fortunate men - 1884 - 192 Seiten
...of 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 the company. — SWIFT. Good manners are the small coin of virtue. — Women of England. 109... | |
| Charles Edward Bolton - 1884 - 414 Seiten
...that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." MANNERS IN CONVERSATION. Dean Swift said: "Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse." There is no better test as to whether people are gentlemen or ladies than to hear them talk. We may... | |
| Truths - 1885 - 572 Seiten
...Contempt, but a little Reservedness, Respect; and handsome Courtesy, Kindness. iKainierS . — Swift. GOOD Manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewesi persons uneasy, is the best bred in the Company. iHanners. — Churchill. WHAT'S a fine Person... | |
| lady Constance Eleanora C. Howard - 1885 - 464 Seiten
...but being in its nature a convention, it loves what is conventional.' ' Swift ' observes, — ' Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.' 'Burke' tells us, — 'Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the... | |
| Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 Seiten
...Writings.) A TREATISE ON GOOD MANNERS AND GOOD BREEDING. 3ooD manners is the art of making those people Jisy o him and his deputy : for he may exercise them by...comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his uureasonable things into common 188 PUBLIC и.'лКи' л:<а 189 lav, go likewise many teachers have... | |
| Frederic Dan Huntington - 1887 - 164 Seiten
...manner at all, and that this next best thing was what the Archbishop had." " Good manners,'' says Swift, "is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in company." "Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life!" exclaims Sterne,... | |
| James Henry Potts - 1889 - 806 Seiten
...which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. I quote from the Dean of St. Patrick's : "As the best law is founded upon reason, so are the...introduced absurd things into common good manners." Good manners is the art of making easy the persons with whom we are brought into contact. There is... | |
| 1891 - 556 Seiten
...; In wit a man, simplicity a child. Рчре. GOOD. Good manners is the art of making those jeople easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is he best bred in the company. Swift. Hail ! ye small sweet courtesies of life, 'or smooth do ye make... | |
| Phineas Garrett - 1892 - 970 Seiten
...others. God's ways seem dark, but soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day. Whittier. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in company. Swift. The man who has a thousand friends Has not a friend... | |
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