| Etiquette - 1856 - 220 pages
...or madness. You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room, their...advantage in life, and is to be acquired with care. In short, the knowledge of the world is never to be acquired without great attention, and I know many... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1857 - 642 pages
...or madness. You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe, at once, all the people in the room, their...what is called absence, which is thoughtlessness, and Avant of attention about what is doing, makes a man so like either a fool or a madman, that, for my... | |
| American essays - 1911 - 994 pages
...personal cleanliness and fastidiousness which had attracted Andriana were, strange to say, almost his only the people in the room, their motions, their looks,...without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.' Only Lee would have completed Chesterfield's idea of courtesy by that other element, love, which Chesterfield... | |
| Cecil B. Hartley - Etiquette for men - 1860 - 344 pages
...or madness. You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe, at once, all the people in the room, their...staring at them, and seeming to be an observer. This qui<;k and unobserved observation is of infinite advantage in life, and is to be acquired with care;... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1861 - 268 pages
...quickness of attention, so as to observe, at once, all the people in the room, — their motions, then- looks, and their words ; and yet without staring at...on the contrary, what is called absence, which is a thoughtlessness and want of attention about what is doing, makes a man so like either a fool or a... | |
| Etiquette - 1870 - 268 pages
...or madness. You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe, at once, all the people in the room; their...on the contrary, what is called absence, which is a thoughtlessness and want of attention about what is doing, makes a man so like either a fool or a... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1872 - 474 pages
...madness. You should not only have attention to everything, but a, quickness of attention, so as to observe, at once, all the people in the room, their...on the contrary, what is called absence, which is a thoughtlessness, and want of attention about what is doing, makes a man so like either a fool or... | |
| Cecil B. Hartley - Etiquette - 1873 - 340 pages
...madness. ' You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe, at once, all the people in the room, their...thoughtlessness, and want of attention about what ia doing, makes a man so like either a fool or a madman, that, for my part, I see no real difference.... | |
| 1875 - 852 pages
...company. " You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room, their motions, their looks, and their word?, and yet without staring at them or seeming to be an observer. " To be inattentive is to be for... | |
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