 | Richard P. Gildrie - 1994 - 264 pages
...moral content of the ideal. "Good Breeding, then," he wrote, "or the Art of pleasing in Conversation, is expressed two different Ways, viz. in our Actions...Scripture: Do unto all Men as you would they should do unto you."16 Interpreted in such terms, Augustan civility was fully congruent with the Puritan traditions... | |
 | Werner Delanoy, Jörg Helbig, Allan James - 2007 - 306 pages
...had in mind when he said that good breeding, or the art of pleasing in conversation, was reducible to "that concise, comprehensive rule in Scripture: Do unto all men as you would they should do unto you" (Fielding 1903, 249-50). Even Dickens, though much less self-effacing than Shakespeare, can genuinely... | |
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Good-breeding then, or the Art of pleasing in Conversation, is expressed two different ways, viz., in our actions and our words, and our conduct in both may be reduced to that concise, comprehensive rule in Scripture: Do unto all men as you would they... 
