Manners and Social Usages

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Harper & brothers, 1907 - Etiquette - 367 pages
 

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Page 364 - The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armor against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 276 - How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man! Some men wear an everlasting barren simper ; in the smile of others lies a cold glitter as of ice: the fewest are able to laugh, what can be called laughing, but only sniff and titter and snigger from the throat outwards ; or at best, produce some whiffling husky cachinnation, as if they were laughing through wool: of none such comes good.
Page 300 - If a match fail to keep its place on the green, and lose in distance more than one clear hole on those in front, it may be passed, on request being made.
Page 329 - You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are : and yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
Page 300 - No player, caddie, or onlooker should move or talk during a stroke. 3. No player should play from the tee until the party in front have played their second strokes and are out of range, nor play up to the putting-green till the party in front have holed out and moved away.
Page 97 - With ardour as intense, as pure, As when, amidst the rites divine, I took thy troth, and plighted mine, To thee, sweet girl, my second ring A token and a pledge I bring : With this I wed, till death us part, Thy riper virtues to my heart ; Those virtues which, before untried, The wife has added to the bride : Those virtues, whose progressive claim, Endearing wedlock's very name, My soul enjoys, my song approves, For conscience
Page 300 - The player who has the honor should be allowed to play before his opponent tees his ball. 5. Players who have holed out should not try their putts over again when other players are following them. 6. Players looking for a lost ball must allow other matches coming up to pass them. 7. On request being made, a three-ball match must allow a single, threesome, or foursome to pass.
Page 60 - Marriage comes in on the thirteenth day of January, and at Septuagesima Sunday it is out again until Low Sunday ; at which time it comes in again, and goes not out until Rogation Sunday : thence it is forbidden until Trinity Sunday, from whence it is uuforbidden until Advent Sunday; but then it goes out, and comes not in until the thirteenth of January next following.
Page 307 - An umpire shall not give his opinion, or notice any error that may be made, unless appealed to by one of the players. The decision of an umpire, when appealed to, shall be final. The duties of an umpire are — (a) To decide matters in dispute during the game, if appealed to.
Page 321 - Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

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