 | Life - 1873 - 342 halaman
...accordingly applauds the very anomalous position Honoria has been tormenting herself about. " Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse ; who ever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company." Vide Swift. " We must... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 halaman
...wish for ; and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee. — Sterne. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with...fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. — Swift. Rabelais and all other wits are nothing compared with Johnson. You may be diverted by them... | |
 | 1876 - 612 halaman
...temporary loss of liberty. Swift was probaly only half-laughing at the world when he told it that " Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse," and surely to do that requires the effort sometimes of no small an amount of tact, if not of deception.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 halaman
...behaviour, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune. SIR R. STEELE. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. SWIFT. One principal point of good breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 halaman
...service to his country than this whole race of politicians put together. fb. Good Manners. Good-manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we...bred in the company. As the best law is founded upon reasons, so are the best manners. And as some lawyers have introduced unreasonable things into common... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 halaman
...behaviour, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune. SIR R. STEELE. Good face shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that SWIFT. One principal point of good breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of... | |
 | 1881 - 578 halaman
...: DIED 1745. (From his Miscellaneous Writings.) A TREATISE ON GOOD MANNERS AND GOOD BREEDING. GOOD ashamed to utter in a world so full of misery. Goldsmith...Though his own health was not good, he detested and ara the best manners. And as some lawyers have introduced unreasonable things into common law, so likewise... | |
 | Lounger in society the pseud - 1881 - 374 halaman
...affairs of life, and you will be justly reputed for your fine manners. 'Good manners,' says Swift, ' is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.' I go farther, and say that good manners is the art of making happy those people whom we live with.... | |
 | Definitions - 1881 - 160 halaman
...Sidney Smith. • (Good) — " The art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whosoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company." Swift. -" Are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature, and of noble mind." Tennyson. Marriage — The... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 halaman
...nobility binds to noble conduct. Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. Good manners is the art of making those people easy .with...fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. A man's own good manners is the best security against other people's ill-manners. If a man makes me... | |
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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. 
