Social Etiquette: Or, Manners and Customs of Polite Society

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National Publishing Company, 1896 - 492 páginas
 

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XVI
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XXXIII
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Página 107 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Página 299 - It is the unique faculty of not only perceiving "sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and good in everything...
Página 320 - Monday's child is fair of face/ Tuesday's child is full of grace/ Wednesday's child is full of woe/ Thursday's child has far to go...
Página 26 - ... respectability of the other. Never undertake this responsibility without in the first place asking yourself whether the persons are likely to be agreeable to each other; nor, in the second place, without ascertaining whether it will be acceptable to both parties to become acquainted. Always introduce the gentleman to the lady — never the lady to the gentleman. The chivalry of etiquette assumes that the lady is invariably the superior in right of her sex, and that the gentleman is honoured in...
Página 22 - A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
Página 335 - Etiquette of the Street. When you are passing in the street, and see coming toward you a person of your acquaintance, whether a lady or an elderly person, you should offer them the wall — that is to say, the side next the houses. If a carriage should happen to stop in such a manner as to...
Página 37 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company ; this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.
Página 1 - ... The Arthur and Elizabeth SCHLESINGER LIBRARY on the History of Women in America RADCLIFFE COLLEGE Gift of Bert Hartry MARY LUNDIE DUNCAN: RECOLLECTIONS OF A DAUGHTER.
Página 22 - ... 4. Remember that, valuable as is the gift of speech, silence is often more valuable. 5. Do not expect too much from others, but forbear and forgive, as you desire forbearance and forgiveness yourself. 6. Never retort a sharp or angry word. It is the second word that makes the quarrel. 7. Beware of the first disagreement. 8. Learn to speak in a gentle tone of voice. 9. Learn to say kind and pleasant things whenever opportunity offers.
Página 20 - I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

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