Etiquette for All; Or, Rules of Conduct for Every Circumstance in Life: with the Laws, Rules, Precepts, and Practices of Good Society |
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acquaintance agreeable allow amusements attachment attention awkward ball behaviour breeding ceremony character choice Cicero civility colour companion complaisance concert considered conversation coquetry dancing degree delicacy DIGNITY OF MANNERS dinner dress duction duties economy endeavour engage equally Etiquette expresses fashion feel fiddle frequently friendship garding genteel gentlemen GEORGE WATSON give GLASGOW good-breeding graces guests hand happiness heart honour important Indiscriminate familiarity introduced invited justly keep kind lady letter of intro LETTER-WRITING letters of business liberal art low company married matters merit mistress morning visits munication natural neatness necessary neglected ness never observed occasion particular party person pleased pleasure politeness preserve promenade proper rank regard respect ridiculous rules sake sentiments sequently servants sider society speak spected street superior taste things toilette trifling unless vulgar walk well-bred Whoever is admitted wish woman young
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Page 10 - good sense, some good-nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them." Goodbreeding alone can prepossess people in our favour at first sight: more time being necessary to discover greater talents. Good-breeding
Page 37 - enters so much into all the occasions of life, that no gentleman can avoid showing himself in compositions of this kind. Occurrences will daily force him to make this use of his pen, which lays open his breeding, his sense and his abilities, to a severer examination than any oral discourse.'
Page 41 - clean for their own sake, but all the rest is for the sake of other people. A man should dress as well, and in the same manner, as the people of sense and fashion of the place where he is: if he dresses more than they, he is a fop: if he dresses less, he is
Page 16 - and contempt than with indignation; as we offer ridiculously too little to a tradesman, who asks ridiculously too much for his goods; but we do not haggle with one who only asks a just and reasonable price. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assent degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But
Page 9 - find the present humour of the company: this is an attention due from every individual to the majority. The art of pleasing cannot be reduced to a receipt; if it could, that receipt would be worth purchasing at any price. Good sense and good nature are the principal ingredients; and our
Page 12 - at least, supposed to be upon a footing of equality with the rest; and consequently every one claims, and very justly, every mark of civility and good-breeding. Ease is allowed, but carelessness and negligence are strictly forbidden. If a man accosts you, and talks to you ever so
Page 17 - company is not what respective sets of company are pleased either to call or think themselves. It consists chiefly, though not wholly, of people of considerable birth, rank, and character: for people of neither birth nor rank are frequently and very justly admitted into it, if distinguished by any
Page 12 - guilty of lolling, whistling, scratching his head, and such like indecencies, in company that he respected. In such companies, therefore, the only point to be attended to is, to show that respect, which everybody means to show, in an easy, unembarrassed and graceful manner. In mixed companies, whoever is admitted to make part of them, is, for the time
Page 54 - A very complaisant and agreeable companion may, and often does, prove a very improper and a very dangerous friend. People will, in a great degree, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says, very justly " Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you
Page 11 - nor sit when others stand; and he will do all this with an air of complaisance, and not with a grave ill-natured look, as if he did it unwillingly. There is nothing more difficult to attain, or so necessary to possess as perfect good-breeding; which is equally inconsistent with a stiff formality, an impertinent forwardness, and an awkward