manners

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as illustrating manners, is still more curious than the King and the Hermit; but it is foreign to the present purpose.

Admitting that the author cannot himself be supposed to have witnessed those times, he must have lived, you observed, among persons who had acted and suffered in them; and even within these thirty years, such an infinite change has taken place in the manners of Scotland, that men look back upon the habits of society proper to their immediate ancestors, as we do on those of the reign of Queen Anne, or even the period of the Revolution.

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'Yours, friend,' returned the secretary in his smoothest manner.

Whether Hugh heard him, or saw by his manner that he was being played upon, or perceived the secretary's drift of himself, he came in his blunt way to the point at once.

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He must have all Edward's virtues, and his person and manners must ornament his goodness with every possible charm."

mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night!

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Phillips' supper party, but his manners recommended him to everybody.

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"Yes," said Anna, with a little of the energy of her friend's manner, "you may with truth say so, Mr.

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For there is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

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Alcee Arobin's manner was so genuine that it often deceived even himself.

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In like manner are the antients, such as Homer, Virgil, Horace, Cicero, and the rest, to be esteemed among us writers, as so many wealthy squires, from whom we, the poor of Parnassus, claim an immemorial custom of taking whatever we can come at.

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The manner of their swearing is this: they set a sheep in the midst of them, and rub it over with butter, the heads of families who are the chief in the nation lay their hands upon the head of the sheep, and swear to observe their promise.

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Now as a community of wives is attended with many other difficulties, so neither does the cause for which he would frame his government in this manner seem agreeable to reason, nor is it capable of producing that end which he has proposed, and for which he says it ought to take place; nor has he given any particular directions for putting it in practice.

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I know, I said, that this is their manner of thinking, and that this was the thesis which Thrasymachus was maintaining just now, when he censured justice and praised injustice.

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Harriet was not insensible of manner; she had voluntarily noticed her father's gentleness with admiration as well as wonder.

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