| American literature - 1880 - 444 pages
...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. We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition to the boarding-school, to the riding-school, to the... | |
| American literature - 1880 - 516 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.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 pages
...or she must be considered, and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genins. 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.... | |
| John H. Young - Etiquette - 1881 - 454 pages
...while awkwardness, coarseness and gruffness are met with locked doors and closed hearts. Emerson says: "Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give...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.... | |
| - 1881 - 854 pages
...address and accomplishments," says Emerson, " and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunée wherever he goes ; he has not the trouble of earning...owning them : they solicit him to enter and possess. Among strangers a good manner is the best letter of recommendatien ; for a great deal depends upon... | |
| Conduct of life - 1881 - 476 pages
...will be considered and everywhere welcomed, though without beauty or wealth or genius. Give a child address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes. The power of manners is incalculable. A person of extensive observation is able to relegate to individuals... | |
| Etiquette - 1882 - 450 pages
...awkwardness, coarseness and gruffness are met with locked doors and closed hearts. Emerson says: " Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give...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.... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Motherhood - 1882 - 420 pages
...KINDNESS. 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.... | |
| William Mathews - Success - 1883 - 396 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... | |
| Joseph Johnson - Success - 1883 - 426 pages
...not influenced and affected by manners. " 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." That was a strange saying of the accomplished American author Hawthorne : " God may forgive sins, but... | |
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