 | Gamaliel Bradford - Biography & Autobiography - 1912 - 370 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...without staring at them, and seeming to be an observer." Only, Lee would have completed Chesterfield's idea of courtesy by that other element of love, which... | |
 | American essays - 1911 - 1018 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...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... | |
 | David E. Shi - Art - 1996 - 410 pages
...sensitivity to social appearances among the nouveaux riches. As one adviser counseled, "You should . . . observe at once all the people in the room, their...yet without staring at them, and seeming to be an observer."20 But the social elite had no monopoly on people watching. "My favorite pastime" as an impecunious... | |
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Attention will do all this ; and without attention nothing is to be done ; want of attention, which is really want of thought, is either folly or madness. You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe,... 
