 A friend of yours and mine has very justly defined good breeding to be the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.  The Quarterly Review - Page 321edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | John H. Young - Etiquette - 1881 - 454 pages
...highest and noblest ideas of what is right. Lord Chesterfield declared good breeding to be " the result of much good sense, some good nature and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them." Again he says: "Good sense and good nature... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - Conduct of life - 1881 - 672 pages
...contented to be seen as he is, than by attempting to appear what he is not. Good manners is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial, for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them. "Manners make the man," says the proverb.... | |
 | A. CRAIG - 1883 - 390 pages
...makes them an absurdity and a nuisance. Good breeding is, as Lord Chesterfield well says, "the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them." Lord Bacon, in his admirable essay on Ceremonies,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1882 - 478 pages
...makes them an absurdity and a nuisance. Good breeding is, as Lord Chesterfield well says, "the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them." Lord Bacon, in his admirable essay on Ceremonies,... | |
 | Mary Frederica P. Dunbar - 1883 - 416 pages
...dead, for he is at rest. Ecclfsiasticus, xxii. n. 4.— - March 30. . 4. Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. CHESTERFIELD. Fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers ; We who improve his golden hours By sweet experience... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 488 pages
...difficult to persuade them that they are welcome. * Which Lord Chesterfield thus defines, " the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them." Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are... | |
 | Swan Sonnenschein (and co, ltd.) - 1884 - 234 pages
...rheumatism. GOOD BREEDING. 1. A FRIEND of mine has very justly defined Good Breeding to be the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of otJiers, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them. 2. Taking this for granted (as I... | |
 | 1900 - 624 pages
...manners says : " Socially wise In his generation was the man who defined good breeding to be the result of much good sense, some good nature and a little...self-denial for the sake of others, with a view to obtain indulgence from them." Happy is the young girl or young man who have been accustomed from their childhood... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 494 pages
...ON GOOD BREEDING. A friend of yours and mine has very justly defined good breeding to be, the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them. Taking this for granted (as I think it cannot... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1887 - 764 pages
...want all their lustre and some part of their use, too." He defines good-breeding to be " the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little...the sake of others, with a vie-w to obtain the same indulgencejrom them.'1'1 Now, if we consider man as an individual, we cannot but recognize that he... | |
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