The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence.... In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sure characteristic of a sound and strong mind is, to find, in everything, those certain bounds, quos ultra citrave nequit con...sistere rectum. These boundaries are marked out by a very fine line, which only good sense and attention can discover; it is much too fine for vulgar eyes. In manners, this line is good breeding; beyond it, is troublesome ceremony; short of it, is unbecoming negligence and inattention. In morals, it divides ostentatious Puritanism from criminal relaxation; in religion, superstition from impiety; and, in short, every virtue from its kindred vice or weakness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the ...world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practice...s and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The popularity of disaster movies ... expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen force...s which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The youngest of four sons, but not the youngest of the family!--you conceive the sort of negligence that creeps over even the kind...est maternities, in such case ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negli...gence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »