Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment: Dedicated to the Youth of Both Sexes
It is to propriety, its justice and attractions, that we ewe all the charm, I might almost say, the being able to live in society. At once the effect and cause of civilization, it avails itself of the grand spring of the human mind, self-love, in order to purify and ennoble it; to substitute for pride and all those egotistical or offensive feelings Which it generates, benevolence, with all the amiable and generous Sentiments, which it 1n5p1res. In an assembly of truly polite people, all evilseems to be unknown; What is just, estimable, and good, or What-we call fit or suitable, is felt on all sides; and actions. Manners and language alike indi cate it. Now if we place in this select assembly, a. Person who is a stranger to-the advantages of a: polite education, he will at once' he made sensible oi' the value of it, and will immediately des1re to display the sameurbanity by which he has himself been pleased.
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