 | Charles Buck - 1807 - 508 ページ
...persons ; also ceremonial behaviour or studied VOL. IL L civility. Good manners, according to Swift, is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners. Without some one... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 ページ
...lord said, " it was because they smelt carrion," A TREATISE ON GOOD MANNERS AND GOOD BREEDING.* GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with...company. As the best law is founded upon reason, so arc the best manners. And as some lawyers have introduced unreasonable things into common law, so likewise... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 546 ページ
...habits of any persons : also ceremonial behaviour or studied civility. Giod manners, according to Swift, is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of Ш manners. Without some one of... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 ページ
...ceremonious behaviour, or studied civility. See the next article. MANNERS (Good), according to Swift, is the art of making those people easy with whom we...teachers have introduced absurd things into common goodmanners. One principal point of this art is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1823 - 614 ページ
...habits of any person ; alto, ceremonial behaviour or studied civility. Good manner*, according to Swift, is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of illmanners. Without some one of... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 ページ
...maxim that law and physic should only be made use of for necessity. Rule of Life. MANNERS. — Good manners is the art of making those people easy with...whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred man in company. — Swift. WISDOM. — Many people make a proper use of the light, yet can any say... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 ページ
...large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity. — Shemtone. MCCLXIII. MCCLXIV. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with...fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. — Swift. MCCLXV. Some men are so covetous, as if they were to live for ever, and others so profuse,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1829 - 654 ページ
...or studied civility. Ste the next article. /. •,>•;, !.,.,• Goad MANNKBS, according to Swift, is the art of making those people easy with whom we...makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man ia the company. As the- best law is founded upon reason, so are the best manners. And as some lawyers... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 ページ
...made lor, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious. — Plutarch.' MCCLXIV. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. WKoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. — Swift. MCCLXV. Some men... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1831 - 644 ページ
...habits of any person ; also ceremonial behaviour or studied civility. Good manners, according to Swift, is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of illmanners. Without some one of... | |
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GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. 
