Author: John TruslerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A System of Etiquette with Maxims of Prudence, and Some Observation on Duelling
Author: John TruslerMiddle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Author: L. YoungPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230598811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Drawing on expressive and material culture, Young shows that money was not enough to make the genteel middle class. It required exquisite self-control and the right cultural capital to perform ritual etiquette and present oneself confidently, yet modestly. She argues that genteel culture was not merely derivative, but a re-working of aristocratic standards in the context of the middle class necessity to work. Visible throughout the English-speaking world in the 1780s -1830s and onward, genteel culture reveals continuities often obscured by studies based entirely on national frameworks.
Bibliotheca Somersetensis
Author: Emanuel GreenPublisher:
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Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Bibliotheca Somersetensis: Bath books. General introduction
Author: Emanuel GreenPublisher:
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Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
A Complete Bibliography of the Art of Fence, Comprising that of the Sword and the Bayonet, Duelling, Etc., as Practised by All European Nations, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day
Author: Carl A. ThimmSensibility
Author: Thomas J. PfisterA Bibliography of Household Books Published in Britain, 1800-1914
Author: Dena AttarPublisher: Prospect Books (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
Author: Florence HartleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In preparing a book of etiquette for ladies, I would lay down as the first rule, "Do unto others as you would others should do to you." You can never be rude if you bear the rule always in mind, for what lady likes to be treated rudely? True Christian politeness will always be the result of an unselfish regard for the feelings of others, and though you may err in the ceremonious points of etiquette, you will never be impolite. Politeness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues. The spirit of politeness consists in a certain attention to forms and ceremonies, which are meant both to please others and ourselves, and to make others pleased with us; a still clearer definition may be given by saying that politeness is goodness of heart put into daily practice; there can be no _true_ politeness without kindness, purity, singleness of heart, and sensibility.
On War
Author: Carl von ClausewitzPublisher:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
Author: Benjamin ConstantPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was born in Switzerland and became one of France's leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician. His colourful life included a formative stay at the University of Edinburgh; service at the court of Brunswick, Germany; election to the French Tribunate; and initial opposition and subsequent support for Napoleon, even the drafting of a constitution for the Hundred Days. Constant wrote many books, essays, and pamphlets. His deepest conviction was that reform is hugely superior to revolution, both morally and politically. While Constant's fluid, dynamic style and lofty eloquence do not always make for easy reading, his text forms a coherent whole, and in his translation Dennis O'Keeffe has focused on retaining the 'general elegance and subtle rhetoric' of the original. Sir Isaiah Berlin called Constant 'the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy' and believed to him we owe the notion of 'negative liberty', that is, what Biancamaria Fontana describes as "the protection of individual experience and choices from external interferences and constraints." To Constant it was relatively unimportant whether liberty was ultimately grounded in religion or metaphysics -- what mattered were the practical guarantees of practical freedom -- "autonomy in all those aspects of life that could cause no harm to others or to society as a whole." This translation is based on Etienne Hofmann's critical edition of Principes de politique (1980), complete with Constant's additions to the original work.