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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. "
The New Success : Marden's Magazine - Page 72
1921
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American Prose: Hawthorne: Irving: Longfellow: Whittier: Holmes: Lowell ...

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...
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American Prose: Hawthorne: Irving: Longfellow: Whittier: Holmes: Lowell ...

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....
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 3

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....
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Our Deportment: Or, the Manners, Conduct, and Dress of the Most Refined ...

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....
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the latter day saints

- 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...
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The Harmonium ...

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...
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Our Deportment: Or, the Manners, Conduct, and Dress of the Most Refined ...

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....
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Exemplary Women: A Record of Feminine Virtues and Achievements

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....
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Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

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...
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Self-effort; or, The true method of attaining success in life

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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