Show SECRET OF GOOD MANNERS chiefly a combination of good sense senio and good nature A friend of bours and mine has haa very justly defined good breeding to be the picault of much good sense good nature and a little self denial for the sake of others and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them taking this for granted as aa I 1 think it cannot be disputed it la Is astonishing to me that anybody who has good sense and good matuie can essentially fill fail in ili good bleeding As to the modes mode of it indeed they vary according to persons alices pi ices and cir cum and me lie only acquired by observation and experience but tho the substance of 0 it is everywhere and eternally th same good manners mannera ate aie to part ilar societies what good morals are to society lr ir general their cement and security and as laws are enacted to enforce goob morals or at least to prevent the ill error effects ts or of bad ones so there aro are cc coa tain rules of civility universally implied and elved to enforce good manners and punish bad ones cones chesterfield |