 There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine...  Works - Page 391by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Florence Hull Winterburn - 1914 - 372 pages
...disillusionment, " are the happy way of doing things ; each, once a stroke of genius .or of love, now hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish...details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. . . . The power of manners is incessant —... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 pages
...thought entering the hands and feet, controlling the movements of the body, the' speech and behavior ? There is always a best way of doing everything, if...superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other. Consuelo,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 pages
...thought entering the hands and feet, controlling the movements of the body, the speech and behavior ? There is always a best way of doing everything, if...superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other. Consuelo,... | |
 | Edgar Lincoln Willard - 1917 - 216 pages
...other against whom it is directed."— Stullz. " Manners are the happy ways of doing things : each one a stroke of genius or of love— now repeated and...routine of life is washed and its details adorned."— Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4 5 a nal' y sis phrase a non' y mous man' age a ble ap pro' pri ate ap prox'... | |
 | Georgia Alexander - 1919 - 116 pages
...important opposite depository 194 195 28 ETIQUETTE Manners are the happy ways of doing things. . . . They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine...are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. . . . No man can resist their influence. There are certain manners... | |
 | Edgar Lincoln Willard - 1921 - 220 pages
...other against whom it is directed."— Stultz. " Manners are the happy ways of doing things : each one a stroke of genius or of love— now repeated and...routine of life is washed and its details adorned."— Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1 2 3 cus to' di an wres' tle proph' e sy rep re sent' a tive ac cus' torn sil'... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...CONSIDERATIONS + 1 he hand can never execute anything higher than the character can inspire. — AKT 1 here is always a best way of doing everything, if it be...dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows. Manners are very communicable; men catch them from each other. — BEHAVIOR We must have kings, and... | |
 | John Harrie Beveridge, Belle M. Ryan, William Dodge Lewis - 1926 - 474 pages
...one is up to the chin in water and within a hair's breadth of drowning 19. PARAGRAPH STUDY MANNERS things; each, once a stroke of genius or of love,...superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. The power of manners is incessant—an element as unconcealable as... | |
 | 1916 - 696 pages
...but as an indication of 'loyal nature and of noble mind.' ' Manners,' he tells us,' are the happy way of doing things; each, once a stroke of genius or...routine of life is washed and its details adorned.' 22 If not instinctive, they may be and should be cultivated. ' They grow out of circumstances as well... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2003 - 596 pages
...the movements of the body, the speech and behavior? There is always a best way of doing every thing, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways...are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other. Consuelo,... | |
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