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Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation - Page 18
by George Washington - 1888 - 34 pages
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Rules of Conduct, Diary of Adventure, Letters, and Farewell Addresses

George Washington - Presidents - 1887 - 122 pages
...somewhat grave. 8. Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy. 9. When you meet with one of greater quality than yourself,...stop and retire, especially if it be at a door or any strait place, to give way for him to pass. 10. They that are in dignity, or in office, have in all...
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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
...taken in ceremonies and compliments is really irksome. 28* If any one come to Speak to you while you are Sitting Stand up tho he be your Inferiour, and...Seats let it be to every one according to his Degree. Chapter iii. 5. Si vous estes assis, lors que quelq'vn vous vient rendre visite, leuez-vous de"s qu'il...
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George Washington's Rules of Civility

George Washington - Etiquette - 1890 - 200 pages
...taken in ceremonies and compliments is really irksome. 28^ If any one come to Speak to you while you are Sitting Stand up tho he be your Inferiour, and...Seats let it be to every one according to his Degree. Chapter iii. 5. Si vous estes assis, lors que quelq'vn vous vient rendre visite, leuez-vous de's qu'il...
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George Washington's Rules of Civility: Traced to Their Sources and Restored

George Washington - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 202 pages
...taken in ceremonies and compliments is really irksome. 28* If any one come to Speak to you while you are Sitting Stand up tho he be your Inferiour, and...Seats let it be to every one according to his Degree. Chapter iii. 5. Si vous estes assis, lors que quelq'vn vous vient rendre visite, leuez-vous dés qu'il...
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Choice Selections: Being about Six Hundred Extracts from More Than Two ...

Charles Northend - Maxims - 1890 - 224 pages
...is writing a letter. Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy. When you meet with one of greater quality than yourself,...stop and retire, especially if it be at a door or any strait place, to give way for him to pass. Let your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive....
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George Washington's Rules of Civility: Traced to Their Sources and Restored

George Washington - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 192 pages
...anything for one to sit on, be it a chair, be it a stool, give to each one his due." Washington : " when you present seats let it be to every one according to his degree." Rule 45, for "moderation et douceur" has "Sweetness and Mildness," Hawkins only "sweetness." Again:...
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Advanced Reader, Specially Prepared to Elicit Thought and to Facilitate ...

Christian Brothers - Readers - 1893 - 460 pages
...submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute. 104 ADVATfVBD When you meet with one of greater quality than yourself, stop and retire, especially if it be at a doo? or any strait place, to give way to him to pass. They that are in dignity, or in office, have...
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The Indiana School Journal, Volume 39, Issue 9

Education - 1894 - 904 pages
...presence of others sing not to yourself with a humming noise, nor drum with your fingers or feet. (6) When you meet with one of greater quality than yourself,...stop and retire, especially if it be at a door or any strait place, to give room for him to pass. (<;) Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust. (d)...
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Stepping Stones to Literature: A Reader for Seventh Grades, Book 7

Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1898 - 328 pages
...cheerful countenance, especially if there be strangers, for good humor makes one dish of meat a feast. When you meet with one of greater quality than yourself,...stop and retire, especially if it be at a door or any strait place, to give way to him to pass. In writing or speaking, give to every person his due title,...
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Appletons' School Readers: (five Book Edition)

William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 564 pages
...countenance, especially if there be strangers, for good humor makes one dish of meat a feast. n. 18. When you meet with one of greater quality than yourself,...stop and retire, especially if it be at a door or any strait place, to give way to him to pass. 19. They that are in dignity, or in office, have in all places...
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