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"...500 toasts and sentiments for everyboy, and their proper mode of introduction. How to use wine at table, with rules for judging the quality of wine, and rules for carving. Etiquette; or, proper behavior in company, with an American code of politeness for every occasion; and etiquette at Washington. Remarkable wit and conversation at table, etc., etc., to which are added, the duties of chairmen of public meetings, and rules for the orderly conduct thereof, together with valuable hints and examples for drawing up preambles and resolutions."--Title page.
Excerpt from The Perfect Gentleman: Or, Etiquette and Eloquence Of all that portion of this work which is devoted to the speeches, it is not the author's purpose to say anything, in the way either of explanation or apology. Let the speeches speak for themselves. It is not claimed that all the toasts are original. Many of them arc taken from such eminent sources - whether American or European - as the author had at his hand; and, whenever the phraseology suited, lie adopted it without change. Of the "American Code of Politeness" there is somewhat more to be said. It was not expected that much which is new could be written on this subject The only aim has been to present the general rules of politeness and etiquette in such a manner as to render them plain and instructive, and to point out some of the absurd and conflicting rules of the fashionable code which have come into our country from different parts of Europe. The author has had the. opportunity of seeing that there arc wide differences between some particular rules of etiquette as practised in America, and Eng land, and on the continent of Europe. Some things that arc orthodox etiquette in London, are gross heresy in Paris and all over the continent of Europe. A man who should conduct himself on the continent in all particulars according to the rules of etiquette practised in England, would soon find himself stared at by well-bred people, if not banished from polite society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society? Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out--and thus reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.