 | Thomas Ballantyne - Quotations - 1870 - 254 pages
...he or she must be considered and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius. Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes ; he has not the trouble of earning or owning them j they solicit him to enter and possess.... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 202 pages
...without it, even men of high ability fail. " Give a boy address and accomplishments," says Emerson, " and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes...owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess." Among strangers a good manner is the best letter of recommendation ; for a great deal depends upon... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1874 - 386 pages
...without it, even men of high ability fail. " Give a boy address and accomplishments," says Emerson, " and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes...owning them ; they solicit him to enter and possess." Among strangers a good manner is the best letter of recommendation ; for a great deal depends upon... | |
 | William Mathews - History - 1874 - 376 pages
...without it, even men of high ability fail. "Give a boy address and accomplishments," says Emerson, " and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes...owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess." Among strangers a good manner is the best letter of recommendation ; for a great deal depends upon... | |
 | Thomas Low Nichols - Human behavior - 1874 - 256 pages
...or she must be considered, and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius. Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces, and fortunes where he goes; he has not the trouble of earning or owning them ; they solicit him to enter and possess."... | |
 | 1889 - 744 pages
...value of manners based on these notions ? One, who was himself the very pink of courtesy, says — ' Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give...fortunes wherever he goes ; he has not the trouble ot earning them, or of owning them ; they solicit him to enter and possess. Among strangers a good... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - Business - 1878 - 384 pages
...manners in educating youths to be business men ? "Give a boy address and accomplishments," says Emerson, "and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes...owning them ; they solicit him to enter and possess." " You had better," wrote Lord Chesterfield to his natural son, " return a dropped fan genteelly than... | |
 | John H. Young - Etiquette - 1879 - 440 pages
...and gruffness, are met with locked doors and closed hearts. Emerson says: " Give a boy address and and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery...owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess." In every class of life, in all professions and occupations, good manners are necessary to success.... | |
 | Etiquette - 1880 - 432 pages
...coarseness and gruffness, are met with locked doors and closed hearts. Emerson says: "Give a boy address and and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery...owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess." In every class of life, in all professions and occupations, good manners are necessary to success.... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - Bookbinding - 1880 - 686 pages
...where, without it, men of high ability fail. "Give a boy address and accomplishment," says Emerson, "and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes....owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess." Genuine politeness is almost as necessary to enjoyable success as integrity or industry. We despise... | |
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Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess. 
