 | Lydia Maria Child - 1831 - 194 oldal
...thank you.' I do not like to see prim, artificial children; there are few things I dislike so much as a miniature beau, or belle. But the habit of good...It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. A person, who acts from this principle will always be said to have ' sweet... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1835 - 196 oldal
...artificial children ; there are few things I dislike so much as a dandy in miniature, male or female. But the habit of good manners by no means implies...affectation or restraint. It is quite as easy to say, " Pray," or, " If you please, will you give me a piece of cake," as to say, " I want a piece of cake."... | |
 | 1841 - 300 oldal
...thank you." I do not like to. see prim, artificial children ; there are few things I dislike so much as a miniature beau, or belle. But the habit of good...It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. A person who acts from this principle will always be said to have "sweet,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 oldal
...accomplished the feat with the most amiable and poco-curante air in the world. POLITENESS-Characteristies of. s in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his love to be treated yourself. Chetttrßtld. POLITENESS— Definitions o£ As to politeness, many have... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 oldal
...real and active endeavours to execute the actions which it suggests. — CJ Fox. ' Be courteous.' — True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. — Chesterfield. As the sword of the best-tempered metal is most flexible;... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1872 - 422 oldal
...equal authority, but merely to express their concurrence." — Abp. Secker. с Williger, d Perey Anee. True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating o 1hers just as you love to be treated у ours el f." — Chesterfield. "Politeness has been well defined... | |
 | John Edmed - 1875 - 220 oldal
...one's jolts wonderfully.' " Grandpa. — '" Not a bad answer for Charlie. Lord Chesterfield says, ' True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.' The Earl of Chatham calls it ' Benevolence in trifles, or the preference... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 oldal
...the good effects of them, as making society easy and pleasing. LORD CHESTERFIELD: Letters to his Son. True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as ynu love to be treated yourself. LORD CHESTERFIELD. All ceremonies are, in themselves, very silly things,... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 oldal
...necessary for him that is hungry to receive it, but it almost chokes a man in the going down. — SENECA. True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. — LORD CHESTERFIELD. All the possible charities of life ought to be... | |
 | Alice Crowther - 1883 - 174 oldal
...that, by our words and manners, others may be pleased with us and with themselves. — Montesquieu. ' True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. — Chesterfield. Whoever pays you more court than he is accustomed to... | |
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Please give me a piece of pie,' as to say, ' I want a piece of pie.' The idea that constant politeness would render social life too stiff and restrained, springs from a false estimate of politeness. True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply... 
