Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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Page xi
... body - Always closely attentive to what is going on - Keeping in the pocket a co- py of the rules - young members to speak but lit- tle - Wait for older members to speak - Fre- quent or long speaking never right - All harsh- ness ...
... body - Always closely attentive to what is going on - Keeping in the pocket a co- py of the rules - young members to speak but lit- tle - Wait for older members to speak - Fre- quent or long speaking never right - All harsh- ness ...
Page 34
... body of precepts and suggestions on this subject is needed ; having never seen any thing which appeared to me to approach toward answering the purpose in view ; knowing that all that many ingenuous youth need , to put them on the right ...
... body of precepts and suggestions on this subject is needed ; having never seen any thing which appeared to me to approach toward answering the purpose in view ; knowing that all that many ingenuous youth need , to put them on the right ...
Page 62
... body else . They bespa tered the clothes and persons of all who were sitting in their imme- diate vicinity ; defiled the floor or carpet beyond endurance ; and thus rendered themselves a nuisance in every house which they entered ...
... body else . They bespa tered the clothes and persons of all who were sitting in their imme- diate vicinity ; defiled the floor or carpet beyond endurance ; and thus rendered themselves a nuisance in every house which they entered ...
Page 82
... bodies upon it at full length , in a horizontal posture ; and thus either exclude all others from sharing in the seat , or subject them to the danger of encountering their soiled shoes . A third class , the moment they fix themselves ...
... bodies upon it at full length , in a horizontal posture ; and thus either exclude all others from sharing in the seat , or subject them to the danger of encountering their soiled shoes . A third class , the moment they fix themselves ...
Page 83
... body , which have been already mentioned as offences against that respectfulness of manner which every gentleman is bound ha- bitually to maintain . This practice of tilting back the chair in company , has been considered and ...
... body , which have been already mentioned as offences against that respectfulness of manner which every gentleman is bound ha- bitually to maintain . This practice of tilting back the chair in company , has been considered and ...
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