[Ward, Cornelia M., Mrs.] How: a book of manners and social customs . thing that is English, youknow, may help us in certain directions, but goodsense should teach us that rules of etiquette can-not be the same where, for generations, the style ofliving has been so widely different If manners are the outward exhibition of benev-olence, the facts show that when the most aristocraticnation in the world is compared, as to manners, withthe most democratic, the judgment of strangers is infavor of the latter. The manners of England, or France, or Germanyalone, would not be suitable for our country;

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[Ward, Cornelia M., Mrs.] How: a book of manners and social customs . thing that is English, youknow, may help us in certain directions, but goodsense should teach us that rules of etiquette can-not be the same where, for generations, the style ofliving has been so widely different If manners are the outward exhibition of benev-olence, the facts show that when the most aristocraticnation in the world is compared, as to manners, withthe most democratic, the judgment of strangers is infavor of the latter. The manners of England, or France, or Germanyalone, would not be suitable for our country; wemay have a little of each—say the best from each 90 RULES AND MAXIMS. —to make up the grand total for our free America,where people of all climes and tongues, come to maketheir homes. 11 The records of the courts of France and Ger-many, in and succeeding the brilliant reign of LouisXIV—a period which was deemed the acme of ele-gance and refinement—exhibits a grossness, a vul-garity, and a coarseness not to be found among thelowest of our respectable

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