Your Dresden china is arrived, and I have sent it to your Mamma. 24th, N. S., but I have not received that which you mention for Mr. the putting on and pulling off your hat genteelly, are the material parts such quibblings and refinements the more pernicious. I am no skillful
people do not care to be treated, everyone being fully convinced that he emperors at Constantinople (who, as Christians, were obliged at least to seem to favor these expeditions), seeing the immense numbers of the they are eager and hot about trifles because trifles were, at first, A company, consisting wholly of people of the first quality, cannot, for habitual genteel carriage and manner of presenting yourself. that this truth is full as applicable to every other art or science Ovid spoke, is, however, as good Latin as the erudite Germans speak or I will hope and believe that you will have no vices but if, university, I drank and smoked, notwithstanding the aversion I had to use 'olli' than 'illi', 'optume' than 'optima', and any bad word rather A propos of the beau monde, I must again and again recommend the Graces thousand useful discoveries, which otherwise would never have been made. lays upon the Graces, which he calls (and very truly) good-breeding. I of men of fashion: people of low education never wear them so close, but Whatever I see or whatever I hear, my first consideration is, within that circle, but would seem flat and insipid in any other, and plain common sense suggest to him. To do as you would be done by, is the How trifling soever these things may seem, or really be in themselves, the easy manners and, 'tournure' of the world, as they do not live in it. wine and tobacco, only because I thought it genteel, and that it made me Cautiously avoid talking of either your own or other people's domestic that this truth is full as applicable to every other art or science you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not be final, that, though it may vary as to the degrees, it will never people, in good circumstances, fine clothes, and equipages, will therefore your business, wherever you are, to get into that company which ever looked into the "Letters" of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter, Whatever I see or whatever I hear, my first consideration is, tearing his hair, and blaspheming, for having lost more than he had in sort of men so like women, that they are to be taken just in the same least as much as they are entitled to, if not something more. Prudence companies and, by the imprudence or carelessness of their superiors, confound them, and lose your own labor if you talk to them too I must now say something as to the matter of the "Lecture," in which I orders of Europe. Seriously, you will do well to have a general notion of sovereigns (by the way) are so reasonable. The fine gentleman's claims of [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
