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" Do not Puff up the Cheeks, Loll not out the tongue rub the Hands, or beard, thrust out the lips, or bite them or keep the Lips too open or too Close. "
Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation - Page 15
by George Washington - 1888 - 34 pages
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George Washington's Rules of Civility: Traced to Their Sources and Restored

George Washington - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 202 pages
...great regard for the ^^^ cleanliness of your hands, but do not or curiosity." be finikin about it. 16* Do not puff up the Cheeks, Loll not out the tongue...bite them or keep the lips too open or too close. Chapter ii. 26. C'est une vilainie de s'enfler les joiies, de tirer la langue, de se manier la barbe,...
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George Washington's Rules of Civility: Traced to Their Sources and Restored

George Washington, Moncure Daniel Conway - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 188 pages
...against any one, or to pluck his dress when speaking to him, or while entertaining him in conversation. ' 15*!" Keep your Nails clean and Short, also your Hands...Clean, yet without Shewing any great Concern for them Chapter ii. 25. Gardez vous bien de vous arrester en toute sorte de conuersation, i rajuster vostre...
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George Washington's Rules of Civility: Traced to Their Sources and Restored

George Washington - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 192 pages
...against any one, or to pluck his dress when speaking to him, or while entertaining him in conversation. 15* Keep your Nails clean and Short, also your Hands and Teeth Clean, yet without Shewng any great Concern for them Chapter ii. 25. Gardez vous bien de vous arrester en toute sorte...
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George Washington's Rules of Civility

George Washington - Etiquette - 1890 - 200 pages
...any one, or to pluck his dress when speaking to him, or while entertaining him in conversation. 15th Keep your Nails clean and Short, also your Hands and Teeth Clean, yet without Shewng any great Concern for them Chapter ii. 25. Gardez vous bien de vous arrester en toute sorte...
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The Story-life of Washington: A Life-history in Five Hundred True Stories ...

Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 848 pages
...others especially in Speaking, Jog not the Table or Desk on which Another writes lean not upon any one. Keep your Nails clean and Short, also your Hands....Clean, yet without Shewing any great Concern for them Be no Flatterer, neither Play with any that delights not to be Play'd Withal. Read no Letters, Books,...
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The Heart of Washington: An Intimate Study of the Father of His Country from ...

Wayne Whipple - 1916 - 188 pages
...and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation." Here are several of the rules, as he copied them: "Keep your Nails clean and Short, also your Hands and Teeth Clean yet without showing any great Concern for them." 30 "Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive."...
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The Story of Young George Washington

Wayne Whipple - Presidents - 1918 - 280 pages
...you Sit down, Keep your 70 Feet firm and Even, without putting one on the other or Crossing them." "Keep your Nails clean and Short, also your Hands...Clean yet without shewing any great Concern for them." "Read no Letters, Books or Papers in Company but when there is a necessity for the doing of it you...
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Papers for Program[s], Volumes 1-12

United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission - 1931 - 440 pages
...other, wry not the mouth, and bedew no mans face with your Spittle, by appr . . . r him . . . you Speak. 14. TURN not your Back to others especially in Speaking,...Clean, yet without Shewing any great Concern for them. 16. Do not Puff up the Cheeks, Loll not out the tongue rub the Hands, or beard, thrust out the lips,...
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Colonial America: Complete Theme Unit Developed in Cooperation with the ...

Mary Kay Carson - Education - 1999 - 66 pages
...Jog not the Table or Desk on which Another reads or writes, lean not upon any one. (RULE NO. H) **. Keep your Nails clean and Short, also your Hands and Teeth Clean yet without Showing any great Concern for them. (RULE NO. 15) **. Show not yourself glad at the Misfortune of another...
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George Washington Reconsidered

Don Higginbotham - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 356 pages
...them full in the Face") to how to present one's countenance ("Do not Puff up the Cheeks, Do not Loll out the tongue, rub the Hands, or beard, thrust out...bite them or keep the Lips too open or too Close"). All the Founding Fathers were aware of these enlightened conventions, and all in varying degrees tried...
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