A Manual of Politeness: Comprising the Principles of Etiquette, and Rules of Behaviour in Genteel Society, for Persons of Both Sexes

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W. Marshall & Company, 1837 - 287 sidor
 

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Sida 95 - Talk to women, talk to women as much as you can. This is the best school. This is the way to gain fluency, because you need not care what you say, and had better not be sensible.
Sida 211 - By such ablution, all accidental corporeal impurities are thrown off; cutaneous obstructions removed ; and while the surface of the body is preserved in its original brightness, many threatening disorders are removed or prevented.
Sida 275 - ... entirely owing to a want of that true and sincere politeness which should animate the whole conduct, though the manner of expressing it must be different according to different circumstances. No rules can supply its place in the familiar intercourse of those who spend much of their time together. Politeness is always necessary to complete the happiness of society in every situation, from the accidental meeting of strangers to the most intimate connections of families and friends ; but it must...
Sida 210 - Cleanliness, my last recipe, (and which is, like the others, applicable to all ages,) is of most powerful efficacy. It maintains the limbs in their pliancy, the skin in its softness, the complexion in its lustre, the eyes in their brightness, the teeth in their purity, and the constitution in its fairest vigour.
Sida 217 - ... lives, and that he could not help conceiving some idea of people's sense and character from the dress in which they appeared when introduced to him. Another writer has remarked that he never yet met with a woman whose general style of dress was chaste, elegant and appropriate, that he did not find her on further acquaintance to be, in disposition and mind, an object to admire and love.
Sida 206 - Collapsed and shrunk with long inanity, And with balsamic nutriment repair The dried and worn-out habit, were to bid Old age grow green, and wear a second spring; Or the tall ash, long ravish'd from the soil, Through wither'd veins imbibe the vernal dew.
Sida 276 - ... the surest means of doing this in different circumstances, and of suiting our conduct to the persons with whom we are concerned. The union of all these will constitute that amiable character, of which true politeness is the genuine and natural expression. The person who has not these qualities may indeed, by other means, attain to something like politeness on Some occasions ; but the person who possesses them in perfection, can never be wanting in it, even for a moment, in any instance, or in...
Sida 244 - Lavater has urged that persons habitually attentive to their attire, display the same regularity in their domestic affairs. He also says : "Young women who neglect their toilet and manifest little concern about dress, indicate a general disregard of order — a mind but ill adapted to the details of housekeeping — a deficiency of taste and of the qualities that inspire love.
Sida 268 - ... that by such means it not only encourages vanity in those to whom it is addressed, but may also draw them in to make themselves appear ridiculous, by the affectation of qualities to which they have little or no pretension. Nor does this artificial kind of flattery generally stop at such qualities as are in themselves indifferent; it is too often employed (and perhaps still more successfully) in disguising and palliating faults, and thereby affording encouragement to those whose inclinations were...

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