The Art of Conversing: Written for the Instruction of Youth in the Polite Manners and Language of the Drawing-roomJames French, 1846 - 96 pagine |
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Pagina vii
... adapted to instruct in the exercise of this strangely neglected branch of human influence . Such may exist in the Chinese language , or in some dialect of Hindostan , but we are ignorant of any Euro- pean authority to which reference ...
... adapted to instruct in the exercise of this strangely neglected branch of human influence . Such may exist in the Chinese language , or in some dialect of Hindostan , but we are ignorant of any Euro- pean authority to which reference ...
Pagina viii
... adapted to them , is not precisely of the same character with the conversation to be carried on , when in the presence of the one whose favor is to be gained . A judicious selection of phrases , viii CONSIDERATIONS , ETC.
... adapted to them , is not precisely of the same character with the conversation to be carried on , when in the presence of the one whose favor is to be gained . A judicious selection of phrases , viii CONSIDERATIONS , ETC.
Pagina 27
... adapted to the lo- cality . In the room of the merchant , where are present men of business , bankers , speculators , & c . , the careless abandonment of manner which exists unnoticed there , would be decidedly out of place in the ...
... adapted to the lo- cality . In the room of the merchant , where are present men of business , bankers , speculators , & c . , the careless abandonment of manner which exists unnoticed there , would be decidedly out of place in the ...
Pagina 84
... adapted to the time when , the place where , the person to whom it is spo- ken . It is a secret known but to few , yet of no small use in the conduct of life , that when you fall into a man's conversation , the first thing should ...
... adapted to the time when , the place where , the person to whom it is spo- ken . It is a secret known but to few , yet of no small use in the conduct of life , that when you fall into a man's conversation , the first thing should ...
Pagina 3
... adapted as well to do gov by its moral impressions , as to please by the interesting inci- dents of the tale . " - N. Y. Evangelist . " It is really a most capital thing . " - Bay State Democrat . PASSION AND OTHER TALES . BY MRS . J ...
... adapted as well to do gov by its moral impressions , as to please by the interesting inci- dents of the tale . " - N. Y. Evangelist . " It is really a most capital thing . " - Bay State Democrat . PASSION AND OTHER TALES . BY MRS . J ...
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acquaintance acquired adapted agreeable antitheses ART OF CONVERSING attention avoid beautiful Boston character Chesterfield commend common-places companion compliments contains COPY-BOOK Cornell Dimanche dinner Don Juan drawing-room duced endeavor to appear exer expressions favor flattering gentleman German Text give hand happy hear humor igno ignorant impertinent improper indulgence influence interest interview JAMES FRENCH jests lady language learned Learners listen Madame Geoffrin mand manner MASSACHUSETTS ment mind mode modest Molière Morning Post mortification necessary ness never Old English one's opinions passion Penmanship person perusal phrases PHYSIOGNOMY pleased polite possess pression previ profession proper propriety public speaking questions quires RECOMMENDATIONS regarded remarks respecting ridiculous sation Schools and Academies seldom silence social society sound speak speech spoken stupid superior tained tale talent talk thing tion tone utter vanity versation virtue woman women words WRITING BOOK
Brani popolari
Pagina 87 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Pagina 84 - I would establish but one great general rule to be observed in all conversation, which is this, "that men should not talk to please themselves, but those that hear them." This would make them consider, whether what they speak be worth hearing; whether there be either wit or sense in what they are about to say; and, whether it be adapted to the time when, the place where, and the person to whom, it is spoken.
Pagina 86 - There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably : It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm ; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable ; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.
Pagina 86 - IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself,' says Cowley ; ' it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him.' Let the tenor of his discourse be what it will upon this subject, it generally proceeds from vanity. An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred of talking of his own dear person.
Pagina 87 - And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves.
Pagina 82 - 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.
Pagina 85 - The best is to take words as they are most commonly spoken and meant, like coin, as it most currently passes, without raising scruples upon the weight of the allay, unless the cheat or the defect be gross and evident.
Pagina 83 - THERE is nothing, (says Plato,) so delightful, as the hearing or the speaking of truth.' For this reason there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
Pagina 3 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Pagina 83 - From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life ; where there in a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by a frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.— Acidison.