 | Historical mirror - 1776 - 308 pages
...body would be petfuaded that you had never kept company with any body above footmen and houfe -maids.' Attention will do all this, and without attention...which is really want of thought, is either folly or madnefs. You mould not only have attention to every thing, but a quicknefs of attention, fo as to obferve,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Books and reading - 1801 - 474 pages
...one would be perfuaJed that you had never kept company with any body above footmen and houfe-maids. Attention will do all this ; and without attention...which is really want of thought, is either folly or tnadnefs. You fhould not only have attention to every thing, but a quicknefs of attention, fo as to... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 430 pages
...Attention will do all this ; and without attention nothing i.: to be done ; want of attention, whieh is really want of thought, is either folly or madness....should not only have attention to every thing, but a quiekness of attention, so as to ohserve, at onee, all the people in the room, their motions, their... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1815 - 360 pages
...hurry , bustle, and agitation, are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind. Indeed , without attention nothing is to be done : want of...which is really want of thought , is either folly er madness . You should not only have -8 qualche tempo , ogni altro oggetto dal suo pensiero. Se un... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind. Indeed, without attention, nothing is to be done: want of...attention, so as to observe, at once, all the people 246 ATTENTION. in the room, their motions, their looks and their words; and yet without staring at... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1841 - 300 pages
...a weak and frivolous mind. Indeed, without attention, nothing is to be done : want of atter.ti yn, which is really want of thought, is either folly or...in the room, their motions, their looks, and their word:: ; mJ yet without staring at them, and seeming to be an observer. This quick and unobserved observation... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1847 - 492 pages
...when he kissed his cow ; everybody would be persuaded that you had never kept company with anybody above footmen and housemaids. Attention will do all...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... | |
 | Etiquette - 1856 - 220 pages
...hurry, bustle, and agitation, are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind. Indeed, without attention, nothing is to be done : want of...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... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - Etiquette for men - 1860 - 344 pages
...when he kissed his cow ; everybody would be persuaded that you had never kept company with anybody above footmen and housemaids. "Attention will do all...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... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1861 - 268 pages
...as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind. Indeed, without attention, nothing is to be done : want of...once, all the people in the room, — their motions, then- looks, and their words ; and yet without staring at them, and seeming to be an observer. This... | |
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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 words, and yet without staring at them, and seeming to be an observer. 
