Excerpt from The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment: Dedicated to the Youth of Both Sexes It is to propriety, its justice and attractions, that we owe all 'the charm, I might almost say, the being able to live in society. At Once the effect and cause of civilization, it avails itself of the grand. Spring of the human mind, self-love, in order to purify and ennoble it; to substitute for pride and all those egotistical or offensive feelings which it gen erates, benevolence, with all the amiable and 'gen erous sentiments, which it inspires. In an assem bly of truly polite people, all evil seems to be un known; what is just, estimable, and good, or what we call fit or suitable, is felt on all sides; and actions, manners and language alike indicate it. N ow -if we place in this select assembly, a per son who is a stranger to the advantages of a po lite education, he will at once be made sensible of the value of it, and will immediately desire to dis play the same urbanity by which he has himself been pleased. 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.