Manners of modern society: a book of etiquette [by E. Cheadle].1878 |
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acquaintances appear arranged attend attire ball beef breakfast bride bridegroom bridesmaids Buckingham Palace butter cake cards ceremony CHAPTER cheese christening church clergyman cloth gilt colour costume course Court Cream croquet cups custom dance dessert dishes drawing-room dress eldest sons elegant entertainment Esquires etiquette fashion fcap fête champêtre fish flowers formal fowls friends fruits Galpin gentle gentleman gilt edges glass godparents gold guests hand Heraldry honour hostess household invitation Jelly kind Knights Bachelors lace lady look Lord Lord Chamberlain luncheon manners marriage meal ment morning morning dress Nestleton never occasions ornamented party person Petter Pine-apple plate present Queen seated servants silk silver sons of Knights Soup speak style supper Sweetbreads Tableaux vivants taste thing tion trimmed Venison Vols W. E. Gladstone wear wedding Whitebait wine Wives of eldest words worn write young younger sons
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20 ページ - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
207 ページ - The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
50 ページ - Household. Secretaries of State under the degree of Baron. Viscounts' eldest sons. Earls
169 ページ - Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light. But oh ! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
76 ページ - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — To thine...
47 ページ - A well-educated gentleman may not know many languages,— may not be able to speak any but his own,— may have read very few books. But whatever language he knows, he knows precisely; whatever word he pronounces, he pronounces rightly...
15 ページ - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
17 ページ - Atrides would have felt a bent rose-leaf, yet subdue its feeling in glow of battle, and behave itself like iron. I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal ; but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his non-vulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature — not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way ; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability...
106 ページ - I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
85 ページ - ... a velvet cloak, two new cloth shirts, black, plain both ; a new shag gown, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat, and silk tops for my legs, and many other things, being resolved henceforward to go like myself.