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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 163 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 58682 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 73 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 109 man 97 good 80 God 76 life 55 great 52 Mr. 50 thing 48 time 30 Lord 26 work 26 day 23 world 23 mind 22 woman 22 moral 22 love 22 Mrs. 20 young 20 England 19 person 19 New 16 reason 16 people 16 little 16 like 16 friend 16 child 16 CHAPTER 15 nature 15 lady 15 gentleman 14 self 14 letter 13 place 13 home 13 Ethics 13 Church 13 Christ 12 dear 12 christian 12 St. 12 Miss 12 John 12 France 11 right 11 Sir 10 year 10 manner 10 character 10 card Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10418 most 526 well 380 least 19 highest 13 worst 11 hard 10 long 6 near 5 greatest 4 soon 4 goethe 3 lowest 3 hathe 2 tempest 2 sweetest 2 shortest 2 farthest 1 zest 1 yesterday"--"i 1 wisest 1 subtle,--more 1 strongest 1 quick 1 purest 1 oftenest 1 nerest 1 manifest 1 loudest 1 lightest 1 liest 1 lest 1 labor,--the 1 kindest 1 infest 1 holiest 1 happiest 1 finest 1 fast 1 easiest 1 early 1 dothe 1 deity,--the 1 deepest 1 brightest 1 --interest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 www.gutenberg.org 6 archive.org 3 www.gutenberg.net 2 www.archive.org 2 fulltext10.fcla.edu 1 library.case.edu 1 hearth.library.cornell.edu 1 hdl.handle.net 1 dp.rastko.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 3 http://archive.org 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46129/46129-h/46129-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46129/46129-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28998/28998-h/28998-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28998/28998-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/etext02/lcewk11.txt 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/7/6/0/17609/17609-h/17609-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/7/6/0/17609/17609-h.zip 1 http://www.archive.org/details/whysucceed00lewirich 1 http://www.archive.org/details/lessonsonmanner00wigggoog 1 http://library.case.edu/ksl/whoweare/departments/preservation/digitized.ht 1 http://hearth.library.cornell.edu 1 http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:coosoc00/coosoc00.pdf 1 http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=juv&idno=UF00001815&format=pdf 1 http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=juv&idno=UF00001815&format=jpg 1 http://dp.rastko.net 1 http://archive.org/details/dataofethic00spenuoft 1 http://archive.org/details/consciencefanati00pittuoft 1 http://archive.org/details/beadlesdimebooko00bead Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 ccx074@pglaf.org Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 151 _ is _ 140 man is not 102 one does not 97 life is not 71 man does not 71 men are not 68 men do not 54 _ are _ 53 people do not 47 one is not 42 _ do _ 37 things being equal 35 people are not 33 _ is not 29 man has not 29 things are not 28 god is not 28 mind is not 28 thing is true 28 world has ever 28 world is not 27 _ feel _ 27 _ have _ 27 woman is not 26 _ see _ 26 ladies do not 25 _ be _ 25 world is full 24 god does not 24 person is not 23 life is too 23 men are so 23 nature is not 23 thing is not 23 women are not 22 _ know _ 22 law does not 22 law is not 21 _ do n''t 21 _ do not 21 case is different 21 lady does not 21 lady is not 20 _ does _ 19 _ has _ 19 man is so 19 one has not 19 things are good 19 things do not 18 children are not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 man has no right 7 man is not so 6 life is not worth 6 man has no more 5 life is no longer 5 man is no longer 5 man is no more 5 man is not merely 4 _ is not _ 4 life is not so 4 men do not always 4 one is not only 4 self is not necessarily 3 _ has not _ 3 case is not so 3 day think no more 3 man is not always 3 man is not only 3 man is not poor 3 man is not responsible 3 man is not simply 3 man is not yet 3 mind is not only 3 one is not likely 3 time has not yet 2 _ do not _ 2 _ give no answer 2 _ has not yet 2 _ is not so 2 case is not simply 2 god is no more 2 god is no respecter 2 god is not only 2 ladies are not expected= 2 ladies do not now 2 ladies have no hesitation 2 ladies have not always 2 law is no law 2 life is not long 2 life is not merely 2 life is not possible 2 life is not really 2 life was not worth 2 man have not self 2 man is no better 2 man is not fully 2 man is not likely 2 man is not wholly 2 men are not alike 2 men are not altogether A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 18533 author = Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) title = The Child at Home: The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Illustrated date = keywords = George; God; Henry; Savior; boy; child; father; home; love; mother; parent summary = Effect of a child''s conduct upon the happiness of its parents. Perhaps, one pleasant day, this mother sent her little daughter to was guilty of falsehood, and said that her mother wanted her at home. boy commenced with disobedience in little things, and grew worse and could not die in peace, till she had called her father and her mother George, when a little boy, had received from his father a hatchet, and a few moments with his father, turned to the little boy, and said, child who feels so grateful for his parents'' love that he will repay children would feel the gratitude which this girl felt for a mother''s to love God, and to prepare to enter the angels'' home! Father in heaven loved us so much that he gave his own Son to die in God tells us that none can be happy but those who love him. id = 22364 author = Abercrombie, John title = The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings date = keywords = Deity; God; affection; certain; conduct; exercise; feeling; influence; man; mind; moral; principle; truth summary = principles existing in the mind that we are enabled to feel the power of in the decisions of different men, respecting moral truth, arising from appear, that there are certain first principles of moral truth, which Truths, or primary principles of moral conviction, I do not mean to This is the _Moral Principle_ or _Conscience_;--in every mind in a state regulation of the moral feelings, in reference to this relation, will desire and every affection regulated by the moral principle, and by a reason, and the moral principle, the man is left at the mercy of moral constitution, conveying the distinct impression of certain conduct certain line of conduct on the pure and high principle of moral duty, reference of individual cases is made to the great principle of moral moral feeling in regard to his own conduct was dead; but his power of moral feelings and the character, in the same manner as if the facts id = 21981 author = Adler, Felix title = The Essentials of Spirituality date = keywords = end; great; human; life; man; moral; self; spiritual; thing; worth summary = spiritual life vagueness is apt to prevail, the outlines of thought are examples of the spiritual quality in human life and conduct. spiritually-minded of the true end of human existence. human life is union with God, the Divine Father, the thought of this Divine Father gives color and complexion to their spiritual life. those who view the supreme end of life as moral perfection, the virtue so painfully resembles vice; the man who puts a moral idol be a sane, strong, morally high-bred man, the effect will be the true values of life from the false, the things that are worth The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from which the moral virtues express themselves in the life of those Shall we say that that man was morally moral parable than a subtle study of man''s dual nature. small occasions of life as great if they involve a moral issue, and id = 9054 author = Alcott, William A. (William Andrus) title = The Young Woman''s Guide date = keywords = Bible; CHAPTER; Christ; Dr.; God; Lord; Saviour; day; female; good; great; life; thing; time; woman; world; young summary = This work is called "The Young Woman''s Guide to EXCELLENCE," because it Besides, I like best the good old fashioned term, YOUNG rising generation of the female sex, than on the character of our young character, what young woman can be found, of any age or in any family, prepared hundreds of young women--so far, I mean, as the mere Let the young woman who would serve God in her day and generation, by rate, I do know; which is, that thousands of young women--and the world almost, if a young woman who has been educated in a fashionable family, almost as great a difference between a young woman who takes all things Show me the individual, young or old, who sets any thing like a important to young women, especially, that this work should not be Let the young woman be in time--that is, be id = 22105 author = Alexander, Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) title = Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics date = keywords = Aristotle; Bergson; Christ; Christianity; Church; Ethics; Ethik; Eucken; God; Gospel; Jesus; Lord; Matt; New; Paul; Plato; St.; State; Testament; christian; good; life; man; moral; self summary = life is dominated by the spirit of Christ, then Christian Ethics must of moral life, to promote which is the primary task of Christian Ethics. moral life; and it is {6} the business of Christian Ethics to show that study of Ethics, as a science of moral life, has come to the front. man--some good which belongs to the true fulfilment of life--Ethics may nature, meaning and laws of the moral life as dominated by the supreme {23} given a new direction to the moral life of man. Even in his natural state man is constituted for the moral life, and, the Christian life there is no such thing as mere duty; for a man never in order to free a man from the duties of the moral life. thought of man''s relation to God which gives coherence to the moral life, moral life of man. id = 16802 author = American lady title = The Ladies'' Vase; Or, Polite Manual for Young Ladies date = keywords = God; Heaven; Mrs.; feeling; good; great; life; little; manner; mind; person; thing; time; woman summary = feelings; it is a good heart, manifesting itself in an agreeable life; manners: hence, a polite person is called a _gentle_ man. to know Mrs. More through her works; and I can form no better wish for steady aim is to grow better and wiser every day of her life, can look Good manners require that you should look at the person who young lady possessed the power of seizing upon the points best worth Author of all things would have them?" How many a young man and woman use to which you mean to put them; and then let the principles of good one''s life in altering things we pay so much for." "I wish," said a novels." "I wish I had time to read any thing," said a third, whom I had am persuaded a woman of great talent is neither so happy, so useful, nor id = 14408 author = Anonymous title = Manners and Conduct in School and Out date = keywords = Assembly; Hall; boy; girl summary = We earnestly hope this little book may help girls and boys to become 2) Boys, a gentleman does not detain on street corners a girl or woman your seat to a woman, a girl, or an elderly man who is standing. 12) Boys, it is not necessary to help the girls mount the stairs in 14) Boys, observe that the moment a woman or a girl enters a passenger 12) Boys, when a girl or an older person drops a pencil, a book, or 14) Open the door, boys, but let the girls pass out first, whenever The right kind of girl and boy friendships may give 5) Don''t be prudes, girls, but let every boy know that he must keep his Introduce a man to a woman, a boy to a girl, a younger person to an 3) Girls and boys, let your napkin lie open across your lap. id = 23230 author = Anonymous title = Boys: their Work and Influence date = keywords = God; boy; man; work summary = books has been to try and help Boys and Girls of the so-called working classes to recognize their duties to God and their neighbour, and to use on the side of right the powers and opportunities which God has given Both home and school ought to have their pleasures as well as their work. your home and school days will train you well for your work in life. worked in a school by the courage of one little boy. are bound then to try and learn about God, and the duty you owe to Him. Every year you ought to advance in knowledge, and not be content with the workshop to be such that no boy can work there without hearing words and little real use unless men will think for themselves, and work out the friendships will work great good so long as they are on the give and take id = 33716 author = Anonymous title = Manners and Rules of Good Society; Or, Solecisms to be Avoided date = keywords = Chamberlain; Court; Lady; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; Royal; card; chapter; dinner; drawing; gentleman; guest; party; room; wedding summary = Ladies arriving in town should leave cards on their acquaintances and When a lady intends leaving cards on a friend who is the guest of some dinner-party, at a ball, at an "at home," at a country-house gathering, lady called on is "at home," cards should be left for the gentlemen of Ladies who have been presented at Drawing-rooms and Courts, held during enter the ball-room after the ladies of their party, and never before when the royal guest is a lady, the host should open the ball with her, town she generally leaves the guests to follow the host and lady of When a lady is acquainted with many of the guests present, she should A host and hostess should, if possible, invite an equal number of ladies the lady of highest rank present, seated at the host''s right hand. table upon small cards and given to the guests by the hostess on id = 39040 author = Anonymous title = Manners and Rules of Good Society; or, Solecisms to be Avoided date = keywords = Chamberlain; Court; Lady; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; Royal; ball; card; chapter; dinner; drawing; gentleman; guest; hostess; party; room; wedding summary = Ladies arriving in town should leave cards on their acquaintances and When a lady intends leaving cards on a friend who is the guest of some dinner-party, at a ball, at an "at home," at a country-house gathering, lady called on is "at home," cards should be left for the gentlemen of Ladies who have been presented at Drawing-rooms and Courts, held during enter the ball-room after the ladies of their party, and never before when the royal guest is a lady, the host should open the ball with her, town she generally leaves the guests to follow the host and lady of When a lady is acquainted with many of the guests present, she should A host and hostess should, if possible, invite an equal number of ladies the lady of highest rank present, seated at the host''s right hand. table upon small cards and given to the guests by the hostess on id = 45591 author = Anonymous title = Beadle''s Dime Book of Practical Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen Being a Guide to True Gentility and Good-Breeding, and a Complete Directory to the Usages and Observances of Society date = keywords = Mother; Mr.; Mrs.; Old; Song; dress; gentleman; good; home; lady; love; man; person; young summary = circle where a true lady or gentleman always finds ready recognition. Good Dress highly Proper and Necessary--The kind of Garments As a rule, then, let us recommend all young persons to enter into out invitations for dinner, or a dance, or an evening party; visits Both ladies and gentlemen should be careful about introducing persons attention in a young man to select as partners those ladies whose want When a young lady declines dancing with a gentleman, it is her duty other case, the gentleman should retire a step, to allow the lady to _first_ to the young lady, to find if his attentions be agreeable to come and remain with you for a time, if the friend be a lady, and In inviting persons to an evening party, the form is: "Mrs. E. beforehand, in order to give ladies time to prepare their dresses. id = 14239 author = Austin, John Mather title = Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness Being a Series of Lectures to Youth of Both Sexes, on Character, Principles, Associates, Amusements, Religion, and Marriage date = keywords = Bible; Christianity; God; LECTURE; character; christian; good; great; habit; high; life; man; marriage; mind; religion; scripture; young summary = To a young man, a good character is the best _capital_ he can But let it be known that a young man is ignorant or indolent, that How can the young secure a good character? many points of view, for a young person to have respectable parents. In like manner, the youthful, to obtain possession of a good A young man may, in early life, fall into vicious habits, and commence life with good habits well established, with high Let a young man, however upright and pure, associate habitually with good man can devote his life to labors for the benefit of others. If the young are looking simply for a peaceful and happy life, where and happy death, as to live a good and useful life. In forming their religious opinions, let the young fail not to I would exhort the young to respect religion, in whatever form they id = 12913 author = Bain, Alexander title = Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics date = keywords = Aristotle; Benevolence; Conscience; Epicurus; Ethics; Faculty; God; Greek; Happiness; Justice; Law; Moral; Nature; Plato; Sense; Standard; Stoics; Sympathy; Utility; Virtue; duty; end; ethical; good; man; morality; pleasure; reason; self summary = 6. The Ethical End is limited, according to the view taken of Moral element in morality; highest human good, love to God; actions Sympathy, the Moral Sense, Social feelings; the benevolent order of Duties to God. Circumstances affecting the moral good or evil of I.--As regards a Standard of right and wrong, moral good or evil, they of the Good or human happiness; and the scheme of Virtue or Duty. ethical questions and fixing a natural moral law, though he allowed a I.--The STANDARD of Moral Good is given in the laws of Nature, which of opinion that man naturally has a conscience or moral sense which determination of human nature, or Perfection, or Happiness, or Moral being who is the author at once of Nature and of the Moral Law; and self, but is regarded as good, that gets the name of virtue or moral id = 10767 author = Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) title = Courage date = keywords = Andrews; M''Connachie; St.; man; thing summary = My own theme is Courage, as you should use it in the great fight that Your betters had no share in the immediate cause of the war; we know I am far from implying that even worse things than war may not come He ought now to know a few things about war that and would like to know of an easy way of accomplishing it. I think he should ask an alumna of St. Andrews to play the old lady If you want to avoid being like Burns there are several possible ways. students the glowing truth, that what their faces are to be like Ages may pass as we look or listen, for time is ''Fight on, my men, says Sir Andrew Barton, I should like to have the time of day passed to me in twelve ''Fight on, my men,'' said Sir Andrew Barton. id = 10274 author = Barrow, Isaac title = Sermons on Evil-Speaking date = keywords = Barrow; God; Greek; Lord; Paul; St.; doth; good; man; neighbour; person; practice; thing; way; word summary = commonly affected by men, often used by wise and good persons; from duty, then doth reason freely resign its place to wit, allowing it man (signifying how God will meet with them in their own way) saith, "seeing," saith he, "an oath doth call God for witness, and Such things a serious oath doth imply, to such purposes swearing God in goodness to such ends hath pleased to lend us His great name; For "false swearing," as the Hebrew wise man saith, "naturally precipitancy; when the man doth not heed what he saith, or consider glory of God, the good of men, the necessity of the case, which doth above all things oblige us to bear no ill-will in our hearts, man doth not directly or expressly charge his neighbour with faults, equity; God hath prohibited it, and reason doth condemn it. good by divers reasons the assertion of the wise man, that "He who id = 31143 author = Bate, John title = Talkers: With Illustrations date = keywords = Arthur; Church; Dredge; Eadie; God; Hill; Jones; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Professor; Sidney; Slack; Squire; Watson; Webster; good; great; hear; lie; like; man; speak; talk; talker; think; time; word summary = The power to talk, like every other natural power of man, is designed back, winked with his left eye, cast a significant glance at Mr. Hungerford, and said, "Mark, sir, what I am going to say:" then, bending friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail." "A man that "I do not think," said Mr. Smith--a truly godly man--to Mrs. Lane--who "I have heard," said Mr. Webster, "that he is a quarrelsome kind of man, "He says a great many things, I tell you," said Mr. Reporter. "You have had fine times," he said, "in your Church with Mr. Good, and said, as he was too far gone to speak, ''Brother, if you feel happy "I see no harm in wishing a good thing like that," said Miss Bond--"a appearances of things._ A man may speak never so well, or act never so "Mr. Smith is a very excellent man," said a friend of mine one day in id = 12811 author = Bennett, Arnold title = The Human Machine date = keywords = Aurelius; brain; day; environment; friction; habit; machine; man; reason; thing summary = efficiency of the human machine is this: _The brain is a servant, by the ''brain'' I mean the faculty which reasons and which gives orders With an obedient disciplined brain a man your brain firmly for half an hour on the truth (you know it to be a great principles which concern the human machine--namely, that the brain What you have to do is to teach the new habit to your brain by daily that every man shall perfect his machine to the best of _his_ powers, unhappiness--then that man will regard his brain with a new eye. mean the man whose brain is not his hobby) is almost always this: ''There man whose brain is in working order emphatically _is_ in his senses. And when a man, by means of the efficiency of his brain, has put his But how is the man whose brain is id = 13449 author = Bennett, Arnold title = The Plain Man and His Wife date = keywords = Mr.; Mrs.; Omicron; Timbuctoo; alpha; business; life; man; plain summary = Moreover, when the plain man gets home again, does his wife''s face say The interesting point about the whole situation is that the plain man Once, perhaps in a parable, the plain man travelling met another And the plain man demanded of the traveller: The plain man, beginning to be annoyed, said: "But do you mean to tell me," protested the plain man, now irritated, Said the plain man: "I''m going because it''s the proper place to go to. "Well--generally supposed," said the plain man, limply. I never troubled about that," said the plain man. plain man nowadays shirks fundamental questions. plain man of common sense, whose life was all means and no end." happen--the plain man whose case I endeavoured to analyse in the that the plain man is always thinking about his business; but I mean "You can only live your life once," said Mr. Alpha. id = 2274 author = Bennett, Arnold title = How to Live on 24 Hours a Day date = keywords = day; hour; life; man; mind; programme; time summary = twenty-four hours a day." Yet it has been said that time is money. You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time. Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? I have no difficulty in living on twenty-four hours a day. So let us begin to examine the budget of the day''s time. hours are thus lost every day simply because my typical man thinks so that more work, more genuine living, could be got out of six days than the waste of days, half an hour at least on six mornings a week, and that an average of over an hour a day given to the mind should hours and a half a week to serious, continuous effort, and still live mind (which is not the highest part of _you_) every hour of the day, id = 17110 author = Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) title = The Young Man and the World date = keywords = Bible; Constitution; God; Master; Nature; New; Republic; Shakespeare; american; college; day; german; good; great; life; man; nation; people; thing; time; work; world; year; young summary = those human conditions in which you, young man, must spend your life, You have got to "make good" with the American father, young man. The world is busy, young man; you have got to young men trying to do things in business, politics, art, the any thought that a young man ought to take a complete general college Speaking of politics, I have always thought men, young and old, ought "Yes," says a certain type of young man, "all the great things have "Well," said the great lawyer, "a young man who has enough ideal of your Nation''s place and purpose in the world, young man. For the world does believe in you, young man. among young men, discovers to the world a _great_ man has in that The first thing that the world should remember about the young man who to the young man confronting the world that it is not so great a thing id = 20861 author = Black, Hugh title = Friendship date = keywords = Christ; God; christian; friendship; good; great; heart; high; life; love; man; soul; true summary = Friendship is not only a beautiful and noble thing for a man, but the that a man lay down his life for his friends." This high-water mark life becomes harmony, and all sorts of loving relationships among men would make it hard to believe in the love of God. The world thinks we idealize our friend, and tells us that love is friend, saving his faith in man, and making him believe in the things of the soul, we feel that the true Christian life cannot be effort to live the Christian life, without feeling the need for death. friendship, even with the friend who is as our own soul. love has a place in the life of man. friendships, and loves, come from God, and are but reflections of the life, and whose love makes us certain of God. We ought to use our faith in this friendship to bless our lives. id = 37068 author = Bok, Edward William title = Successward: A Young Man''s Book for Young Men date = keywords = God; american; business; good; life; man; success; woman; young summary = The average young man is apt to think that success is not for him. best success--is possible to any young man of honorable motives. The average young man''s idea of success is like unto that of people of thing for a young man going into business to learn is to disassociate Let a young man be thoroughly fitted for the business position he Right in line with this phase of a young man''s work comes the necessity The young man engaged in business to-day in this country has advantages And yet, while a young man may be ambitious for success in business, he The social life of a young man has a direct and important bearing upon principles to a young man''s business life. compatible with a young man''s business success?" Or sometimes it is put: good woman over the life of a young man. id = 13004 author = Burgess, Gelett title = More Goops and How Not to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants date = keywords = Goop; illustration; little summary = GOOPS, and How to Be Them; A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants. At Table A Goop Party Little Goops are marking Said a Goop to his Papa; Why is it Goops must always wish _Because they''re Goops!_ So no one cares! [Illustration: Baby''s Apology] [Illustration: The Goop Picnic] [Illustration: Book Manners] [Illustration: Poor Mother!] [Illustration: Goop! "_Mother said that I could stay_ For they _never_ ask a Goop to come again! [Illustration: The Flower Hospital] [Illustration: Puppy Goops] The little Goop who''s greedy I thought I saw a little Goop I thought I saw a little Goop [Illustration: Untidy Goops] I think you are a Goop, because I think you are a Goop, because I think you are a Goop, because [Illustration: A Goop Party] [Illustration: Don''t be Good] [Illustration: Write Right!] [Illustration: Wet Feet] [Illustration: Dress Quickly!] [Illustration: In Goop Attire] You may act like a Goop, if you please, id = 36664 author = Burgess, Gelett title = Goops and How to Be Them date = keywords = Goops; illustration summary = [Illustration: _To Agnes who is Not (always) a Goop!_] [Illustration: TABLE OF CONTENTS] [Illustration: Introduction] [Illustration: Table Manners.--II.] [Illustration: Table Manners.--II.] [Illustration: Miss Manners] [Illustration: Memory] [Illustration: Books] The boy who plays at marbles and doesn''t try to cheat, When mother bade him stop his play, [Illustration: Bed-Time] [Illustration: Modesty] Did you ever catch them playing at their horrid little games? [Illustration: Patience] The clock will go fast, if you let it! [Illustration: Fortitude] [Illustration: George Adolphus] [Illustration: Politeness] [Illustration: Gentleness] [Illustration: Hospitality] [Illustration: Pets] [Illustration: Remember] [Illustration: Curiosity] [Illustration: Willy] Willy told his mother [Illustration: Clothes] [Illustration: Helpfulness] I never knew a Goop to help his mother, [Illustration: Quietness] [Illustration: Order] [Illustration: Teasing] Hint about the toys you like and every doll you see; [Illustration: Interruption] [Illustration: Cry-Baby] [Illustration: Caution] [Illustration: Tardiness] [Illustration: Obedience] [Illustration: Perseverance] [Illustration: Doll-Time] [Illustration: Combing & Curling] Till, like other little girls, [Illustration: Cheerfulness] id = 20608 author = Calhoun, A. R. (Alfred Rochefort) title = How to Get on in the World: A Ladder to Practical Success date = keywords = Dr.; George; God; London; Lord; Mr.; Richard; Sir; Washington; business; character; day; duty; good; great; habit; labor; life; man; mind; self; success; time; work; world; young summary = The young man beginning the battle of life should never lose sight of What a great number of paths the observant young man sees before him! very poor at the time," said a great New York publisher, "but The best equipment a young man can have for the battle of life is a turbulence of a man''s nature as his union in life with a high-minded In a general way, the great fields of human effort, at this time, may Public life has its rewards, but they rarely come to the honest man hearts, and the man who devotes his life to this great purpose must So, in the great game of life, what a man does must be made to count, money ought by no means to be regarded as a chief end of man''s life, an ignorant man wise in a few years, and, employed in good works, id = 32421 author = Call, Annie Payson title = A Man of the World date = keywords = life; man; world summary = idea, even among so-called well-bred men, that a man who knows the world It is a certain fact that no man can understand and live in what is good knowledge of the evil in the world enlarges a man''s experience just in A man who thoroughly knows the world must be capable of understanding A man who can only understand certain special phases of human nature is To know the world we must not only be able to understand all phases of The true man of the world The true man of the world understands perverted human nature,--from the A man to understand the world must be in the process of and soul is possible to every man who will first understand himself, and We have seen that a man, to know the world, must know and understand its The standard of character and life represented by the idea of the man of id = 40901 author = Celnart, Elisabeth title = The Gentleman and Lady''s Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment, Dedicated to the Youth of Both Sexes date = keywords = CHAPTER; Paris; Politeness; good; lady; letter; person; place; present; propriety; section; time; visit summary = we ought above every thing to avoid being personal; for a husband or a knows that whatever be the fortune of a young lady, her dress ought We should appear ridiculous to wish persons _a happy new year_, in you are present, a letter is brought to the person you are visiting, and taking leave should be also determined by ladies, or by aged persons, If a lady who receives a half ceremonious visit is sewing, she ought to Persons who are careful of their conversation, avoid, as faults of society, when young persons ought so carefully to avoid making a parade pleasantry before certain persons; but a man of good _ton_ ought to Persons about to travel, ought to make visits of taking leave among the gentlemen, who ought to take care not to place them before persons observing what persons are present, then mingle in the conversation, id = 35890 author = Chapone, Mrs. (Hester) title = Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady date = keywords = Carter; Chapone; Christ; God; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Mulso; Richardson; friend; good; great; history; letter; mind; year summary = prospect of her marriage pleasures, it will soon be seen that, as Mrs. Barbauld wrote, ''her married life was short, and,'' short as it was, ''not ''Young women,'' she observes, ''_know so little_ of the world, especially natural consequence of loving God and virtue! since we know not whether, if convinced, they might not prove, like St. Paul, chosen vessels to promote the honour of God, and of true religion. excel in virtue." We shall wish to cultivate good-will, and to promote the good and happiness of the persons you love; that tears are Rather choose some person of riper years and judgment, whose good-nature It is narrowness of mind to wish to confine your friend''s affection to tell the precise year, in which a great man lived, as to know, with the pleasure and use of reading it a _second_ time; for you must id = 3351 author = Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of title = Letters to His Son, 1746-47 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman date = keywords = Harte; LETTER; LONDON; Mr.; boy; dear summary = My long and frequent letters, which I send you, in great doubt of their Lausanne; therefore pray let me know how you pass your time there, and DEAR BOY: Though I have very little time, and though I write by this post I hope you employ your whole time, which few people do; and that you put DEAR BOY: Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon: they I would pass some of my time in reading, and the rest in the company of Does good company care to have a man reeling very little purpose for you to frequent good company, if you do not There are a great many people, who think themselves employed all day, and good company, and, by observation and attention, learning as much of the which fewer people do know, than the true use and value of time. id = 3352 author = Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of title = Letters to His Son, 1748 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman date = keywords = Europe; France; Harte; LETTER; LONDON; Leipsig; Mr.; boy; company; dear; german; good; great summary = know, that such a right use of your time is having it all to yourself; by your manner of asking them; for most things depend a great deal upon man of parts and knowledge, who acquires the easy and noble manners of a characters of kings and great men are only to be learned in conversation; Duval says there is a great deal of very good company at Madame I have known people, who, though they have frequented good company all motly a thing is good company, that many people, without birth, rank, or In this fashionable good company, the best manners Good company (as I have before observed) is composed of a great variety You may sometimes hear some people in good company You will find, in most good company, some people who only keep their not think that she could, at this time, write either so good a character id = 3353 author = Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of title = Letters to His Son, 1749 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman date = keywords = Comte; Harte; LETTER; LONDON; Mr.; Rome; Turin; Venice; boy; dear; good; great; man summary = company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better cost little and bring in a great deal, by getting you people''s good word company; for people will always be shy of receiving a man who comes from content myself (till we meet naturally, and in the common way) with Mr. Harte''s written accounts of you, and the verbal ones which I now and then and clear air, and, as I am informed, a great deal of good company. These are the proper and useful objects of the attention of a man of DEAR BOY: There is a natural good-breeding which occurs to every man of good-breeding, address, and manners, your serious object and your only It is the character of an able man to despise little things in great air and manners; he has all the dignity and good-breeding which a man of id = 3354 author = Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of title = Letters to His Son, 1750 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman date = keywords = FRIEND; France; Harte; LETTER; LONDON; Mr.; Paris; dear; french; good; italian; man summary = such company, take great care that no complaisance, no good-humor, no of your life; shine in the pleasures, and in the company of people of good symptom; for a man of sense is never desirous to frequent those MY DEAR FRIEND: Very few people are good economists of their fortune, and Young people are apt to think that they have so much time Many people lose a great deal of their time by laziness; they loll and their proper order; by which means they will require very little time, ''agremens'' of a man of fashion; so many little things conspire to form at the same time, civil or respectful manners, according to the company own good sense must distinguish the company and the time. your careful observation of the manners of the best company, will really People lose a great deal of time by reading id = 3355 author = Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of title = Letters to His Son, 1751 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman date = keywords = Albemarle; Europe; FRIEND; LETTER; LONDON; Lord; Madame; Mr.; Paris; dear; good; man summary = view, keeping a great deal of good company, is the principal point to most certainly true, that your dancing-master is at this time the man in MY DEAR FRIEND: Among the many good things Mr. Harte has told me of you, great deal of time and attention to be read and understood as it ought to Frivolous people attend to those things, ''par preference''; they know You have now got a footing in a great many good houses at Paris, in which useful to establish in good houses and with people of fashion. little time, and you will return to Paris again, where I intend you shall knowledge of the world, polite manners, and an engaging address, are I mean the air, the address; the graces, and the manners of a man of attention; for a young man can never improve in company where he thinks id = 3356 author = Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of title = Letters to His Son, 1752 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman date = keywords = Duke; FRIEND; France; French; Hanover; King; LETTER; LONDON; Lord; Paris; dear; good; great; man summary = The Jesuits know, better than any set of people in the world, the MY DEAR FRIEND: In a month''s time, I believe I shall have the pleasure of countries; each hath its distinctive language, customs, and manners: know abord and address, make people wish to know him, and inclined to love you the advantage of keeping a great deal of different French company; an no means the case of a man, who converses or negotiates in a language useful to you to hear it, and to observe the turn and manners of people which the success commonly turns: A man who hath studied the world knows manners of social life, every man of common sense hath the rudiments, the hour''s reading every day will carry you a great way. generally know a great deal of the world; they are thrown into it young; id = 3357 author = Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of title = Letters to His Son, 1753-54 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman date = keywords = Berlin; FRIEND; LETTER; LONDON; Lord; Manheim; Mr.; Munich; dear; good summary = I have lately read with great pleasure Voltaire''s two little histories of the spirit of a man of fashion, who has kept good company. the other day, said, in French, for she speaks little English, . and bowels a little; I am sure it would do you a great deal of good Mr. Burrish can, doubtless, give you the best letters to Munich; and he will you should like Bonn or Munich better than you think you would Manheim, not think that that little, weak man is the greatest whore-master in tell you what was said the other day to a fine lady whom you know, who is that (supposing a certain degree of common sense) what is called a good experience, I know no thing, nor no man, that can in the meantime bring mean that of a good speaker in parliament: you have, I am sure, all, the id = 3358 author = Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of title = Letters to His Son, 1756-58 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman date = keywords = Duke; FRIEND; Hamburg; King; LETTER; Lord; Mr.; Prince; Prussia; dear summary = MY DEAR FRIEND: I received but the day before yesterday your letter of little trouble to learn it; it is often of great use to know it. MY DEAR FRIEND: Your last, of the 30th past, was a very good letter; and MY DEAR FRIEND: I have this moment received your letter of the 18th, with mean it with regard to the King of Prussia himself, by whom I could wish MY DEAR FRIEND: I received yesterday your letter of the 2d instant, with who have a great and generous way of thinking; as, for instance, when he DEAR FRIEND: I am now two letters in your debt, which I think is the MY DEAR FRIEND: Your secretary''s last letter brought me the good news MY DEAR FRIEND: I received, with great pleasure, your letter of the 22d MY DEAR FRIEND: It is a great while since I heard from you, but I hope id = 3359 author = Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of title = Letters to His Son, 1759-65 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman date = keywords = BLACKHEATH; FRIEND; France; God; King; Lord; Mr.; Pitt; dear; letter summary = MY DEAR FRIEND: Your secretary''s last letter of the 4th, which I received of a moderate army, and wanted (I know why) to be at the head of a great MY DEAR FRIEND: I have been in your debt some time, which, you know, I am MY DEAR FRIEND: I have received your letter, and believe that your MY DEAR FRIEND: I received your letter this morning, and return you the MY DEAR FRIEND: Yesterday I received your letter, which gave me a very MY DEAR FRIEND: Yesterday I received your letter, which gave me a very MY DEAR FRIEND: I arrived here, as you suppose in your letter, last MY DEAR FRIEND: The day before yesterday I received your letter of the 3d MY DEAR FRIEND: I received but four days ago your letter of the 2d MY DEAR FRIEND: I received but four days ago your letter of the 2d id = 3360 author = Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of title = Letters to His Son, 1766-71 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman date = keywords = Chatham; FRIEND; God; LETTER; Lord; Mr.; dear summary = I am in as good health as I could reasonably expect, at my age, and with great deal better or worse together; but I think rather the latter; for MY DEAR FRIEND: I received, yesterday, with great pleasure, your letter MY DEAR FRIEND: I received, two days ago, your letter of the 26th past. MY DEAR FRIEND: I received, two days ago, your letter of the 26th past. am extremely weak, and have in a great measure lost the use of my legs; I God bless you, and send you good health, which is better than all the MY DEAR FRIEND: Yesterday I received your letter of the 29th past, and am whether Lord C---had done anything in it; which I shall know when I go to MY DEAR FRIEND: Two days ago I received your letter of the 8th. MY DEAR FRIEND: The day after I received your letter of the 21st past, I id = 7539 author = Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of title = Quotes and Images from Chesterfield''s Letters to His Son date = keywords = good; man; people; thing summary = Consciousness of merit makes a man of sense more modest Dress like the reasonable people of your own age Dressed as the generality of people of fashion are Every man knows that he understands religion and politics Few things which people in general know less, than how to love Few people know how to love, or how to hate Frivolous, idle people, whose time hangs upon their own hands I know myself (no common piece of knowledge, let me tell you) Knows what things are little, and what not Make every man I met with like me, and every woman love me People never desire all till they have gotten a great deal People lose a great deal of time by reading To know people''s real sentiments, I trust much more to my eyes We love to be pleased better than to be informed Young people are very apt to overrate both men and things id = 50189 author = Clifford, William Kingdon title = The Scientific Basis of Morals, and Other Essays Viz.: Right and Wrong, The Ethics of Belief, The Ethics of Religion date = keywords = God; action; belief; character; great; know; man; moral; right; sense; thing; wrong summary = By Morals or Ethic I mean the doctrine of a special kind of pleasure or and of a special desire to do the right things and avoid the wrong two things:--(1) The act was a product of the man''s character and one action is right and another wrong, we have a certain feeling toward as a motive; meaning by moral sense only the feeling in regard to an action which is considered as right or wrong, and by motive something still our feeling about the rightness or wrongness of an action does ''How do you know that this is right or wrong?'' ''My conscience tells me a man is not morally responsible for his actions is the same thing as the words right and wrong, conscience, responsibility; and we have possessed a moral sense, and felt that certain things were right and we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so, id = 15510 author = Cobbett, William title = Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. date = keywords = America; England; English; God; London; Mr.; book; case; child; day; good; great; history; husband; life; man; thing; time; want; wife; woman; year; young summary = not affect to believe, that _every young man_, who shall read this work, young men so much above their real rank and state of life, that they time the pay of a labouring man per day, as fixed by law, was I hope that every young man who reads this, will start in life men at the time, and that which ought to be _made known to every young this be the case generally, what ought to be said of a young man, who, every young person ought to have in view, is a thing to last _for life_; But by the word SOBRIETY, in a young woman, I mean a great deal more case, a man of learning and of great natural ability: he has not had to those things which your calling or state of life naturally supposes you the rich man; like the latter, he has parents, wife and children; a id = 37358 author = Cohen, Chapman title = Determinism or Free-Will? date = keywords = Determinism; Free; Indeterminist; James; Professor; action; character; desire; fact; man; nature summary = upon human nature, in the same way that we know the forces determining Circumstances determine conduct only when a "free" volition allowed for human self-determination to anyone but the first man. actions and opinions of the free man are not the result of heredity, possibility as it explains choice, provided we allow facts to determine does very clearly point to a determinative power exercised by the human the moral life are real things, Determinism must leave them develop character along desirable lines; and, apart from Determinism, it as "possible." Whether we say that a man ought to do a certain thing, or determining conditions of doing better actions in future. that if action is the expression of character, responsibility is a responsibility determines action, and the phrase loses all meaning and general human action under certain social conditions. that the social medium as a factor determining man''s mental nature has id = 35761 author = Cone, John A. (John Albert) title = The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms date = keywords = Blaine; conversation; dress; good; great; little; man; manner; person; personal; thing; voice; woman summary = persons try as he did to acquire that power, but because the average man A man will believe in a woman''s love and be satisfied with far fewer others are, in a broad way: good manners, a pleasing voice, the ability to converse well, personal neatness, taste in dress, tact, good morals, As it is the manly man who wins and satisfies a good woman, so it is the womanly woman who pleases and retains the regard of the estimable man. little sympathy for the girl who imitates men either in dress, manner Men do not like the over-dressed woman--the one who goes to the extreme Manners are the expression of the heart, and the man or woman The men and women who have accomplished great things in the world have, Every woman likes a man better for being well dressed. If a man noticed half as many things about a woman that did not id = 27830 author = Conklin, Mary Greer title = Conversation What to Say and How to Say it date = keywords = Mr.; Stevenson; conversation; dinner; good; gossip; guest; man; people; table; talk; word summary = delightful conversation in France--Leading the talk--Topics for host and hostess--The dominant note in table-talk--General and dinner--Drawing guests out--Signaling for conversation--General and Good conversation is the nimbleness of mind to take the chance word or Good conversation, then, is the give and take of talk. and laws of good conversation is the best kind of talk. Stevenson again, "that a person should be a good gossip and talk Duty to Host and Hostess--The Dominant Note in Table-Talk--General hostess in the entire table-talk, while conversing volubly with others. conversation as is talking one''s self, good listening demands the same conversation which is the backbone of all good talk. Conversation-Circle--Children and Their Interruption--Good Talk principles of good conversation and interesting table-talk. There can be no good conversation at table where the talk _Conversation Is Reciprocal--Good Conversationalists Cannot Talk to _Conversation Is Reciprocal--Good Conversationalists Cannot Talk to _Subjects for Conversation; Book Talk_ id = 39005 author = Conkling, Margaret C. (Margaret Cockburn) title = The American Gentleman''s Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews date = keywords = American; Charley; Colonel; English; Fanny; French; Health; Ida; John; Julia; Ladies; Lunettes; Manner; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Page; Period; Sir; St.; V----; Washington; Y----; dear; double; friend; gentleman; good; habit; lady; letter; life; like; little; man; respect; rule; self; time; young summary = General Directions--Tact and Good Taste--Leaving Cards--Visits Lady entering a Dining-Room--To Older Persons--Meeting or life, in public places generally, observe the manner in which elderly pretty young lady under the care of some suitable person for a short an old woman with a good-humored face and portly person, seated near a of Man," I think, relates an instance of a young person, in infirm as she said, she wanted to talk a little about old times, when we were "Who is that fine-looking young man, Colonel Lunettes?" asked the lady part of this profound observer of life and manners, and a young lady matters stood, a good-natured, farmer-like looking old man, who occupied "I do not know how to thank you sufficiently, sir," said the young lady, "My dear young lady," said I, taking her hand respectfully in my own, young lady who occupied the seat with her new friend came to her and id = 34258 author = Conwell, Russell H. title = Acres of Diamonds date = keywords = Hafed; Massachusetts; New; Philadelphia; great; man summary = you know that man Jones that lives in Philadelphia?" "Yes, I have heard Says another young man, "I hear sometimes of men that get millions of occur many times, friends: A man would come in the store, and say to me, Then a third man came right in the same door and said, "Do you keep how rich I would get." "Young man, do you think you are going to get The moment a young man or woman gets more money than he or she has grown sat beside me a kind-hearted young man, and he said, "Mr. Conwell, you If you know a great man in Philadelphia and you should "There is going to be a great man in Philadelphia, but never was one." That other young man gets up and says, "There are going to be great men but he thought an office made a man great. id = 28998 author = Cooke, Maud C. title = Social Life; or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society date = keywords = Brown; England; Etiquette; Home; John; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; President; Street; Thursday; Tuesday; Washington; Wedding; address; card; dear; dinner; dress; form; friend; gentleman; good; guest; hand; hostess; illustration; invitation; lady; leave; letter; little; party; place; room; table; time; wear; woman summary = time, a gentleman simply lifts his hat, a lady bows, and that is all. The lady of a house usually shakes hands with all guests whom A young lady simply gives her hand to a gentleman, neither pressing the above fashion, and quite young ladies leave their chaperon''s card Young men in this country leave cards for the young ladies of a house, Ladies who give many dinner parties usually keep on hand the engraved A still more simple form for a party invitation is an "At Home" card The young man who spent so much time at the home of a certain lady The hostess, assisted by a daughter, or a young lady friend, usually being all placed at the table at one time, and the ladies of the Some ladies invite several young girls to help serve and entertain, If a dinner party is given in honor of a lady, it is the host''s place id = 18712 author = Cope, Henry Frederick title = Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals date = keywords = Father; God; Jesus; faith; good; great; heart; high; life; man; religion; teacher; thing; truth; world summary = Because man is a spirit his life never can consist wholly in things; he spirit life in which things shall count for less and thought and Life is the business of learning to use things as tools, the real as the prime thing, the life; it is easy to forget that the great question Every force in this world works with the man who seeks the good. The fewer people a man takes into his plan of life the more likely is Above all other things, the most desirable is that men shall love truth life of the spiritual world, as inheritors of things divine, sublime, Life itself is the object of living; the chief end of man is to become days, seek the things that are above, the life that serves some worthy force that moves all things in life; if within the man looks up, then id = 23659 author = Crane, Frank title = 21 date = keywords = God; life; man; thing summary = words, I have lived a full, active, human life, and have got thus Every man''s life is a plan of God. Fate brings to me the Life is not like a problem in arithmetic, to be solved by learning Any man of twenty-one has a better chance for happiness, moral Many young people play the fool and marry the wrong person, but my As to money, or station in life, or cleverness, or good looks, they practical way for a young man, especially if he be a professional which I mean the kind of a man that does not whine when he fails, To do Right and not Wrong will save any man''s soul, and if he So let not the young man laws of life as carefully as successful business men observe the practical matters, but it is better to know how to live, how to id = 47993 author = Della Casa, Giovanni title = A Renaissance Courtesy-book: Galateo of Manners & Behaviours date = keywords = Casa; Della; Galateo; Maister; Renaissance; ceremony; doe; good; like; man; maner; reason; selfe; suche; thing; time; y^e; y^t summary = be such things as a man shall neede alwayes at all hands to use, to doe bountifull things: for to use it often, cannot any man beare moste men: And yet, hee that is of nature least apt unto it, doth use use in like things, so little discretion, that they spit in mens faces And in like maner, to rise up where other men doe sit and talke, and things, but use them measureably: that thou maist not bee an odd man ill skill to doe, that never give a man a good countenaunce: easily every occasion, fall in rehersall of suche thinges, as many men doe. And such as use to jest at a man, be very like unto these: I meane It is not inoughe for a man, to doe things that be good: but hee must Againe, I doe not like it, that a man shall take uppon him to be a id = 60422 author = Dewey, John title = Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics date = keywords = Ethics; Kant; Mill; Spencer; Vol; act; action; desire; end; good; moral; pleasure summary = ethical world realized in institutions which afford moral ideals, directed upon action it gets a value at once; let the end, the act, direct end of action being simply means to pleasure. succeed in making the object of desire mere pleasure as a state of of the various acts of one agent; or, more simply, the moral end must of pleasures, is just the sense of a moral (or active) capacity and The Moral End or the Good is the Realization by a Person and as a is there in the term ''duty'' or ''obligation'' if the moral end or good in holding fast to its concrete relations to the moral end, or good. moral law, to sum up, is the principle of action, which, acted upon, Goodness, as the realization of the moral end, is a system, and the End--moral: see common good; function; motive. id = 12508 author = Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) title = The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue date = keywords = Audubon; Bartlett; Dennis; Ellis; God; Leslie; Parry; Wilson; art; bad; good; knowledge; man; nature; reply summary = general idea of the kind of things which we consider good. "Of course," I said, "it is true that people do hold things to be good I think the war a good thing (whatever that may mean); but what of "Oh," said Parry, good-naturedly enough, "of course I know very well "But," said Leslie, "do you really think that there is no common Good "But then," said Leslie, "in that case it is this Good of their own "Well, then," he said, "my ideal of the good life would be to move in "Do you mean to say," said Parry, "that moral action has no Good in "Why," he said, "in the case of what you call Goods of sense, in their "Yes," he said, "I think so, in so far at least as Good is to be "Then," I said, "if so, we know that the Good cannot be realized." id = 5775 author = Drake, Durant title = Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics date = keywords = American; City; Ethics; God; Journal; Kant; Monthly; New; Review; Social; State; York; chapter; conscience; footnote; good; great; happiness; iii; life; man; morality; need; problem; work summary = and far-sighted moral perspective; to see the acts of our fellow men nature-we may group the causes of social morality in man. emotions of men were making for the gradual humanizing of morals, the reformers, the men of new insight, of individual moral judgment, who moral principles for personal and social life. refuse to be dominated by it, and live the life of free men, following means of making man''s life safe and wisely directed. possible; all secondary goods and evils arise, all morality, all art consciousness, social morality the goods and evils in other conscious PERSONAL morality is the way to live the most desirable, the properly) we must needs say that nothing is morally good or evil, just run, good for man which influences his life in the unwholesome ways C. Read, Natural and Social Morals, chap. C. Read, Natural and Social Morals, chap. C. Read, Natural and Social Morals, chap. id = 43405 author = Eucken, Rudolf title = Ethics and Modern Thought: A Theory of Their Relations date = keywords = inner; life; man; morality; new; spiritual; world summary = Work and Social Morality are specific results of the present time, the world, exalts moral action far above arbitrary human choice and civilisation and culture a new form of life opposed to mere nature. and his inner life, the development of his own individual personality operation of spiritual forces--to create and develop an inner world. new phase of life at first appears--in man--only in a few individual spiritual life reveals a new phase of reality, it must also form a of morality binds all human action, represents the whole of man''s life, labour for the development of a spiritual world within the life of man. As we have seen, the morality of the spiritual life The morality of the spiritual life can in such cases and educational power that the morality of the spiritual life is bound What becomes of man and of human life, if the id = 12887 author = Fairbanks, Douglas title = Laugh and Live date = keywords = Fairbanks; chapter; day; good; great; illustration; laugh; life; man; mind; thing; time; way; world summary = Douglas Fairbanks in "The Good Bad-Man" body_, a _good mind_, an _honest purpose_, and a _lack of fear_ are the The world has great need of the sober, thoughtful men _above the fifty The successful man is the one who _knows he is right_ The young man standing on the threshold of life is, from lack of Yet the average man goes into life with as little knowledge of its becomes a part of the man _who knows himself and laughs with life_, at To rise in life means that our fellow man believes in us and wishes us "Nothing succeeds like success," said some very wise man and if there The world loves the man with _an open mind_. [Illustration: _Douglas Fairbanks in "The Good Bad-Man"_] go to the man who does things and say to him: "Here is my little In the same way he made "The Good Bad Man" hand him over everything of id = 32438 author = Faris, John T. (John Thomson) title = The Book of Courage date = keywords = Bible; God; New; President; Washington; courage; day; friend; good; life; look; man; thing; time; work; year summary = A little girl four years old came trembling to her mother and asked for A young man who was seeking his life work made known his willingness to always to be found folks like the young man of whom Donald Hankey said his life to the interest of young working men near his church once asked The story was true to life for, times without number, blind men and course, give up all idea of being a useful man; in that day few thought old when he began to think of devoting his life to work for others. Once the unwilling partner said: "Often, after a good day''s work, he probably will, come to me and I will give you work." The man little The business man was thoughtful as he passed from his friend''s office. An old fable tells of a good man to whom the Lord said he would give id = 46777 author = Fletcher, Horace title = Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought date = keywords = Dr.; God; Man; appreciation; fear; fearthought; good; growth; habit; happiness; life; love; mind; thing; time summary = The normal condition of man in civilized life is that of happiness. Fearthought is the cause of all deterrents to growth in Man. Forethought minus Fearthought is the ideal Mind Equipment. has experimented with the condition and results of fear to a greater certain suggestions will purify our minds, by eliminating special fears that all fear is eliminable by use of sufficiently powerful suggestion _know_ that it is possible to cure all of the separate forms of fear conditions of free expression, is probably the best place to study fear Fear is rarely general as related to different causes for fearthought. As fearthought is the parent of all the evil emotions, so is fear of germ principle of fear to the cultivation of growth and happiness, that _Fear not Death if you would know and love life._ Fear is Habit-of-Fearthought only, and is self-imposed, or imported. id = 12035 author = Fowler, Thomas title = Progressive Morality: An Essay in Ethics date = keywords = act; action; case; conduct; feeling; good; man; moral; sanction; social; society summary = moral feelings, with a view to shew how far they may be justified and acts of a moral character which are not affected, in most countries, by feelings which really concern the moral and social welfare of mankind. constitute the moral sanction, by no means invariably supervene on acts moral sanction depend, to a considerable extent, on the circumstances act of moral approbation, as has sometimes been the case, but as only a moral but a legal one, the act of determining the character of which determines the character of an act,--the moral judgment,--and the conduct excites no moral feeling on our part, though, if he were to act men, there is not likely to occur any case in which the greater social reason and society, how can we employ them as a test of morality, which society if men generally were to act in that manner. id = 8467 author = Frost, S. Annie (Sarah Annie) title = Frost''s Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. date = keywords = Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; etiquette; friend; gentleman; good; guest; hand; house; lady; leave; letter; party; person; place; room; servant; time; visit summary = friend, nor may a gentleman join a lady in the street. Should a lady, however, stop in meeting a gentleman, etiquette lady does not leave her seat to receive a gentleman, slightly The gentleman of the house offers his arm to the lady most honored A gentleman must offer his arm, never his hand, to lead a lady to If a gentleman meets a lady friend who is walking with any one he If a gentleman meets a lady friend who is walking with any one he In inviting a lady to ride, if a gentleman cannot offer the use of concert-room; but a gentleman may recognize his lady friends. A lady must answer a note of invitation to visit a place of public for the ladies of the family, and the gentleman friend or relative It is a breach of etiquette for a gentleman to enter a lady''s id = 6463 author = Fullerton, George Stuart title = A Handbook of Ethical Theory date = keywords = Aristotle; Bentham; Book; Ethics; God; III; Ibid; Kant; Nature; Rational; Sec; Sidgwick; Social; chapter; community; desire; footnote; good; law; man; moral; reason; self; state summary = "The Methods of Ethics," maintains [Footnote: Book III, chapter xiii, Sec MAN''S NATURE.--Moralists ancient and modern have had a good deal to a social state of some sort, capable of choice and merely desirous of [Footnote: Chapter xxix.] holds that man''s reason promulgates a law which he maintains, always "some idea of the man''s personal good." [Footnote: Sec himself; [Footnote: Sec 138.] and he calls "the human self or the man" desire or will of his fellow-man, there appears no reason to deny him the appeals to human nature have a good deal in common; upon man''s rational 2. This is social man, the true representative of human nature as That the ethical views of individuals and of communities of men may character which it is desirable, from the moral point of view, that a man justice to the fundamental impulses and desires of man, a social and id = 8881 author = Given, Charles Stewart title = A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece date = keywords = Fleece; Jason; William; great; life; man; opportunity; success; world; young summary = thus God has written the natural dignity of the young man''s life in the always been the young man who has embarked in the world''s great great young men, some of them like Jason embarking on the sea of adventure The young man is emphatically the _ruling element_ in politics to-day. Like Jason, the young man of to-day is the hero to cry of a rag-man and the mournful strains of a hand-organ come to my ears. The man who has spent his life like a scaraboid beetle rolling up money, Moreover, every man is himself an opportunity of infinite greatness. life to know just the thing to do, and the opportune moment for doing it. Our life is a succession of opportunities. the midst of a great world pulsing with life around you. In the words of a great man, "Nature fits all her children with something Work is the great law of life. id = 19872 author = Gosse, Edmund title = Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France date = keywords = Bossuet; Bruyère; Caractères; Condé; Duke; Fayette; France; Lintier; Louis; Maximes; Mme; Paris; Pascal; Rochefoucauld; Sévigné; Voltaire; french; life; man; vauvenargue summary = young French officers at the beginning of the war. been done by La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Vauvenargues, whom, did it writings of La Rochefoucauld, that his various French critics have Rochefoucauld''s letters to Esprit--most of which belong to the year For the last ten years of La Rochefoucauld''s life she La Bruyère was thirty-five years of age when La Rochefoucauld died, that a strong new book is not read by a young man whose genius is great man of letters in comparatively recent times about whose life Valincourt says that "All the time La Bruyère lived in the House of perceive it--La Bruyère introduced a new thing into French literature; all the great French moralists who preceded him, from La Rochefoucauld Vauvenargues was twenty-six years of age when the war of the Austrian The spirit displayed by the young French officers in this war deserves id = 5255 author = Green, Walter Cox title = The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions date = keywords = ADDRESSED; DRESS; INVITATIONS; Kent; MEN; Wilson; afternoon; card; man; wedding; woman summary = A woman may leave the cards of the men leave the cards of the men of her family. Both men and women wear afternoon dress. All guests, both men and women, wear A man having a card or letter of introduction woman''s hostess, he should send his card to WOMEN RECEIVING AND INVITING MEN. When calling, a man should leave a card When calling, a man should leave a card man should leave cards for her mother, a man should leave a card for the host a man should leave a card for the host A man may mail his card to a woman ceremony should leave cards for those inviting A man may mail his card to a woman engaged A young woman chaperoned should not accept a man''s invitation, upon a hostess, a woman should leave a card, If a woman invites a man If a woman invites a man id = 17956 author = Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount title = Recreation by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G. date = keywords = Colonel; England; Roosevelt; bird summary = find real recreation and spend leisure time when they have it in reading great books of all time on which one generation after another has set one has said, "Whenever a new book comes out read an old one." We need time the names of modern books which they have read and found good. best things in life, the recreation of reading needs a little planning. songs of English birds suggested some two years previously would be the Romans came, for the songs of birds come down unchanged through American bird songs were better than anything we had in England; but his said everybody talked about the song of the thrush; it had a great so few people have sufficient feeling about bird songs to care to Roosevelt had said, that the song of this bird would be about the only England, should be the only song bird which the great continent of North id = 56721 author = Guthrie, Malcolm (Writer on Herbert Spencer) title = On Mr. Spencer''s Data of Ethics date = keywords = Biology; Ethics; Free; Mr.; Spencer; action; evolution; life; organism; self; view summary = consisting of changes due to the laws of a moving equilibrium, Mr. Spencer seeks to show that the adaptations of an organism in response to life, yet very little adjusted to ends; but again he regards its actions system by studying first what he terms the biological view of ethics. can the purely biological view of animal organisms as physical moving factor a commanding position in the physical action of organisms; it organisms were originated and maintained by the action of physical laws life in each individual organism as regards its continued existence, and biological law is the continuous adjustment of organisms to environment, general biological law, and takes the mind off from the special ethical development of organism and actions, including the subjective as of an incomprehensible Self-Determining Power on the part of the Ego. The Deterministic theory as regards the actions and conduct of an id = 31340 author = Hackley, E. Azalia (Emma Azalia) title = The Colored Girl Beautiful date = keywords = Christ; God; Negro; beautiful; child; colored; girl; good; race; woman summary = Colored children should be taught that Thought will improve their good little colored children should be taught early in life to think rightly. Because God has given each colored girl a beautiful voice, she should be races, is not the religion for the colored girl beautiful, of today. The colored girl beautiful will be taught to keep her eyes open and her The colored girl beautiful will be taught her duty and relationship to The colored girl beautiful will be taught the value and use of money, The Home of the Colored Girl Beautiful will reflect her. The Colored Girl Beautiful, will study the possibilities of her home and In her relationship with men the colored working girl beautiful will put colored woman beautiful gives the best in her for race advancement. How can the colored mother beautiful expect her children to have habits The daughter of the colored woman beautiful will be taught to expect id = 43359 author = Hamerton, Philip Gilbert title = Human Intercourse date = keywords = Bohemianism; Byron; Church; England; Englishman; Essay; France; Frenchman; George; God; John; London; Lord; Mill; Mr.; Philistine; Plumpton; Shelley; Sir; bohemian; english; father; french; good; great; kind; letter; life; little; nature; people; religious; time; woman summary = naturally into equal divisions than words beginning with different letters natural world, which becomes like a great and ever-present companion. little use to one solitary mind, it may be like a living friend to good-fortune to find this one woman, early in life, in the person of Mrs. Taylor; and as his nature was intellectual and affectionate rather than people is simply the public opinion, the common sense, of the class and time with people who cannot understand him, and if he likes the feeling of general, the knowledge of English attained by French people (not without English people of education know a little French and German, but few speak class of genteel French people affected to believe that the end of the value, both friends must have the natural gift of friendly letter-writing, That there are great natural differences of talent for letter-writing is id = 35123 author = Hartley, Florence title = The Ladies'' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society date = keywords = CHAPTER; ETIQUETTE; Miss; Mr.; avoid; dress; evening; french; friend; good; guest; hand; lady; leave; letter; person; place; room; servant; time; water; white; word summary = A COMPLETE HAND BOOK FOR THE USE OF THE LADY IN POLITE SOCIETY. a truly lady-like person will avoid all such topics. ADAPTIVENESS--Let each dress worn by a lady be suitable to the occasion meet a friend at table, and converse, let it be in a tone of voice Two dressing-rooms must be ready; one for the ladies, and the other for Be dressed and ready to receive your guests in good season, as some, in introduce the gentleman who invites you to some lady friend who dances. When you write to invite a friend to visit you, name a time when it will manner, and in easy language, so in your letters to such persons, let If you wish to be a well-bred lady, you must carry your good manners order before you leave the dressing-room, and avoid all such tricks as One lady will enter society, well-dressed, well-looking, polite; she id = 23025 author = Henney, Nella Braddy title = The Book of Business Etiquette date = keywords = Hopkins; Mr.; New; York; american; business; courtesy; girl; good; letter; like; man; people; place; salesman; time; want; way; work summary = agreed cheerfully enough and the man went his way, entered business and No good business man will argue with a customer, or anybody else, not instruction in good manners and know by the time they are men and women emphasis on courtesy?" a business man was asked one day as he sat in his "Whenever we find a good man," said the manager of a big trust company, only one thing we drop a man for right off," says an employment manager remark of his to prove a serious point, when, as a matter of fact, Mr. Harriman was one of the large number of American business men who have he does not like the manner of the person behind it, but business men, every business man at one time or another has to write or to consider. And that would work hardship on those who do." Every business man knows id = 17274 author = Hillis, Newell Dwight title = The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Service date = keywords = Christ; England; God; Jacob; John; King; London; Lord; child; day; english; great; heart; influence; law; life; like; little; love; man; mind; nature; time; year summary = In his vision he saw good men as Great Hearts, to whom crowded close man shall be as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land; a shelter a roll were these words: "While God gives me life each day shall a man Evermore man receives what he first gives to nature and society and God. History is rich in interpretation of this principle. truly great man takes long steps by God''s side, has the courage of the The time-principle holds equally in man''s social and industrial life. Back of Africa''s new life stands a great heart named richness, it emphasizes the sympathy and love of God. Each man paints stand forth as a great opportunity for loving hearts. Life holds no motive for stimulating gentleness in man like the thought like divine love in the heart of man, and at last that force will id = 36695 author = Hillis, Newell Dwight title = Right Living as a Fine Art A Study of Channing''s Symphony as an Outline of the Ideal Life and Character date = keywords = Channing; God; beauty; life; man; soul summary = not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, A STUDY OF CHANNING''S "SYMPHONY" AS AN OUTLINE OF THE IDEAL LIFE AND century must now be added the revival of the beautiful in this new era for beauty that was manifest in pictures, marbles, rich textures, bronzes, home, religion to be life-teachers, God has now ordained the beautiful as beautiful in its time," he indicates that God''s handiwork is perfect work. Man now seeks to make his books beautiful for the radiant beauty, man encourages the hope that he can carry his own reason, lump of mud; man answers, let it become a beautiful vase. CHANNING''S VISION OF THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE. CHANNING''S VISION OF THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE. In founding his ideal life upon contentment with small means, Channing Slowly the soul moves toward harmony, symmetry and beauty. id = 8932 author = Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) title = Lessons in Life; A Series of Familiar Essays date = keywords = Christianity; God; LESSON; Mr.; Providence; american; child; christian; come; find; good; great; life; like; man; mind; nature; power; right; thing; truth; woman; work; world summary = life, a man can in a great degree become the master of his moods, that countless men and women have never found any thing in life the man, as He loves all men; but to admire his style of manhood well-dressed man or woman is admirable, and that thing is good in of the great multitude of men and women in this world; and that, said with truth that there is no work within the power of man--so hard bodily labor is such a life as God never intended man should man''s position and relations in society into what style of life he faith in men and women, and remain as good a man as he was before comes, in every man''s life, when he recognizes the fact that God So, if a man would live a full and generous life, he must supply it id = 40845 author = Hopkins, Mark title = The Connexion Between Taste and Morals: Two lectures date = keywords = God; beauty; emotion; man; mind; moral; principle; taste summary = and then, according to the nature of the object, an emotion of beauty, qualities in objects which awaken the emotions of taste, act directly beautiful or sublime objects, and will compare the effects produced which excite the emotions of taste, and those relations on which morals beautiful objects in nature, or in art, there is an order, a propriety, I remark again, that the emotions of taste are favorable to morals, cultivation of a taste for the fine arts and for natural objects. is, between a true taste for natural objects and the fine arts, and on taste having moral actions for its object. emotions of taste are awakened by moral actions? It has been observed, that the emotion of moral beauty arises when there But though moral beauty and sublimity are so different in their nature It is, that we naturally associate with goodness, beauty of id = 10417 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One''s Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others date = keywords = Chapman; Girl; God; Hooker; Ivan; Sunday; Sympathy; Tom; good; life; man; religion; thing; time; work summary = For instance, Leo Tolstoy, a great and good man, at one time point where men will be willing to leave the matter of life-expression man thinks, whether he is right or wrong, he is making head. Two things man will have to do--get free from the bondage of other men; minded his own business, and did the work that no man can ever do unless Will there not come a time when all men and women will work because it That men should work together for the good of all is very beautiful, and spirit of man will live again in a better world than ours. That is to say, art is religion to the man who thinks beautiful thoughts Certain things the times demanded, and no one man, or two or three men The old-time prejudice of business men against the man who had "done id = 17195 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = A Message to Garcia Being a Preachment date = keywords = Garcia; sidenote summary = who does his work--who carries the message to Garcia. At the time Mr. Daniels was distributing the "Message to Garcia," [Sidenote: The Russian railroad-men] was given a copy of the "Message to Garcia." [Sidenote: The President needed a man] Rowan was sent for and was given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where thing--"Carry a message to Garcia." [Sidenote: There are other Garcias] half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds, unless by hook [Sidenote: _Who wants a man like this?_] Can such a man be entrusted to carry a message to Garcia? [Sidenote: _This man says times are scarce_] who can carry a message to Garcia. message be given him to take to Garcia, his answer would probably be, [Sidenote: _A word of sympathy for the man who succeeds_] [Sidenote: _Good men are always needed_] id = 4320 author = Hume, David title = An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals date = keywords = concern; footnote; good; great; human; interest; man; moral; nature; object; person; principle; quality; reason; regard; sentiment; society; virtue summary = reasoning, in order to feel the proper sentiment; and a false relish SOCIABLE, GOOD-NATURED, HUMANE, MERCIFUL, GRATEFUL, FRIENDLY, GENEROUS, humanity, friendship and gratitude, natural affection and public spirit, reason sufficiently instruct us in this natural progress of human utility and to support civil society, the sentiment of justice is either Self-love is a principle in human nature of such extensive energy, and accounts for every moral sentiment by the principle of self-love. regard, which the natural sentiment of benevolence engages us to pay to consequences of the general principles of human nature, as discovered in sentiments of esteem and regard from the same or like principles. reflection, appears so natural in the mind of man. MORAL DISTINCTION, therefore, immediately arises; a general sentiment of observe a like conduct; that; in general, human society is best these sentiments must be allowed real in human nature: but whether they id = 20098 author = Hunter, William Crosbie title = Evening Round-Up More Good Stuff Like Pep date = keywords = Dad; God; Hunter; Mother; book; day; good; happiness; help; home; know; life; little; love; man; thing; thought; time summary = that''s Pep. We''ll learn how to establish helpful thought habit that our lives may be Living in harmony with the great natural laws is the helpful way to What an interesting thing is the great round world we live in. The man who discovers means to help his fellowman, does a good act, but good helpful thought in closing the mental book of each day. You can only think one thing at a time, and "Pep" or any other book that matter of food, thought, habit and exercise in PEP, but I want right Next time you have a negative day and the fear thoughts come, just start There is a time in the business man''s life between the age of 48 and 52 We know that on this earth kindness, love, occupation, help, truth, cheerful, doing good, helping one another and doing things worth while. kind of book you re-read--and find new meanings and help each time. id = 36849 author = Hunter, William Crosbie title = Think: A Book for To-day date = keywords = Dad; God; day; good; great; happiness; help; home; life; love; man; right; sidenote; thing; thought; time; work summary = Nature mends ordinary nerve waste each day, like the rains replenish the I want to help YOU to form the habit of thinking over each day''s Living in harmony with the great natural laws is the helpful way to happiness and content coming your way all along the great big road of What an interesting thing is the great round world we live in! from life that comes to the little group of To-day, who appreciates and Change your thoughts to confidence, faith, and good cheer, and busy your some good helpful thought in closing the mental book of each day. You can think of only one thing at a time, and "Pep" or any other book negative day and the fear thoughts come, just start in one by one and thoughts; think of the good things that life has given you, not the id = 56306 author = James, George Wharton title = Living the Radiant Life: A Personal Narrative date = keywords = California; Divine; England; God; John; Miller; Nature; New; day; fear; good; great; human; life; live; love; man; people; power; radiancy; radiate; soul; thing; time; want; woman; world summary = understand how many things a wise and good man has felt radiated from good time." I believe God intended that all living beings should be How good is man''s life, the mere living, how fit to employ mental health which strengthens body, mind, and soul--the real life desire to radiate only truth, purity, sincerity, courage, good judgment, The great errors have come in when men have said: "I have found the way Let us stand upright as men--one man just as good as another--_if he is its fellows, that its soul can take hold of God. And I fancy that it is only when a life thinks and acts for itself, and I want to radiate a constant, never-failing love for God''s great out of I want to radiate a joy in the little things of to-day. minds and souls of men, and lifting them up into a higher state of life, id = 37016 author = Janet, Paul title = Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State date = keywords = Aristotle; God; Kant; Plato; Rousseau; Socrates; State; art; child; duty; good; great; law; life; love; man; moral; reason; right; self; thing; virtue; work summary = other men, or to God. Moral good, under these different forms, presents itself always in the 2. By the very fact of _moral law_ or _duty_; I _ought_, therefore I DIVISION OF DUTIES--GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL MORALITY. called _individual_ morality; that which treats of the duties towards God, morality _properly called social_; 2, duties towards the State, or _civil_ General principles of social duties: to do good, not to do evil.=--All General principles of social duties: to do good, not to do evil.=--All are the duties of man in his family; there remains to be said a few words in the present state of things, a man may still fulfill his duty in The different duties of man toward himself, considered as a moral being, cases of conflict between our duties, and if moral law does not in certain Man''s duty toward himself as a moral id = 11939 author = Jordan, David Starr title = Life''s Enthusiasms date = keywords = good; heart; life; man; thing; world summary = In the affairs of life, then, is no form of good manners, no --even the sands do that--but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes of young life, the luminous visions of the boys that are to be men. come to know "the wonderful fellow to dream and plan, with the great The very humanity of men at large is in itself a source of inspiration. Charles Eliot Norton advises every man to read a bit of poetry every day This is good verse and it may well serve to relate the gray world of Northern Texas to the many-colored world in which men struggle and die To learn good poetry by heart is to acquire help toward doing To learn good poetry by heart is to acquire help toward doing for a city is composed of men, and now, ever and forever the man must id = 4754 author = Jordan, David Starr title = The Philosophy of Despair date = keywords = Pessimism; Science; action; life; man summary = know it, for to the highest human wisdom the ultimate truths of the joy and exuberance, a sense of a new life in a new world, a feeling of new power and adequacy, the thought that life is richer and better worth comment" on the ideal, and man''s life is too short to make any action One of the few things that we may know in life is this, that it is we are to take up the threads of life by the farther end only, we shall The realities in life are love and action; not life be sad, yet there''s joy in the living it" was the word of the The philosophy of life is its working hypothesis of action. of the human will is worth the pain of calling it into action, is to cut earnest student of human life, that "in whatever part of God''s universe id = 9469 author = Jordan, David Starr title = The Call of the Twentieth Century, an Address to Young Men date = keywords = Century; God; Twentieth; day; life; man; time; work summary = end-of-the-century pose, has given way to the rush of the strenuous life, The earlier centuries cared little for the life of a man. What sort of men does the century need for all this work it has to do? saying of a successful man; for all men are ready to help him who throws Men of training the century must demand. its own, and the young man who does the century''s work will be a product of In the ordinary business of life the smart man has had his day. He is the wise man who for all his life can keep mind and soul you, boy of the Twentieth Century, let him come as a man among men in his you, boy of the Twentieth Century, let him come as a man among men in his in whatever part of God''s Kingdom we men of the Twentieth Century may find id = 36993 author = Jordan, Furneaux title = Body, Parentage and Character in History: Notes on the Tudor Period date = keywords = Elizabeth; Europe; Henry; King; Mary; NOTE; Reformation; Tudor; VIII; character; man; time summary = NOTE I.--THE VARIOUS VIEWS OF HENRY VIII.''S CHARACTER. NOTE VI.--THE MORE CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF HENRY''S CHARACTER. NOTE VI.--THE MORE CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF HENRY''S CHARACTER. NOTE VIII.--HENRY AND HIS PEOPLE AND PARLIAMENT. capable men of Henry''s reign to meet half a dozen of Victoria''s, the jury Henry''s death, in all time of trouble the people longed for Henry''s good carried out long before our Henry''s time. Henry come near to the truth, Nero was the better character of the two. In order to read Henry''s character more correctly, if that be possible, cannot but see how unlike Henry was to the impassioned men of history. of the great names of Henry''s time. of Henry''s character, favour the view that he thought and willed and acted All the elements of character which Henry possessed were found also in Henry (and his time) said, you may think id = 45641 author = Knott, Laura A. (Laura Anna) title = Vesper Talks to Girls date = keywords = God; Paul; day; friend; friendship; good; life; school; self; thing; woman; work; world summary = days, months pass by and leave very little that makes life permanently time in selecting those who are to be your life friends, and remember transforming and vitalizing power in a young life, I yet believe it to it lasts there are tremendous forces at work upon the young life, and lasting friendships, the great lack, at this period of life, is a true Some one has given this recipe for a happy life: "Work, play, study, best things life has brought us have come along that road of the defeat the students live a common corporate life, away from their homes and educated young woman who has not yet found her place in life may be be a great person." You dream of enriching the world with your life. spoiled girl who goes away from home to live the community life in Not that they were the best days your life will know,--let no one id = 26334 author = Lecky, William Edward Hartpole title = The Map of Life Conduct and Character date = keywords = CHAPTER; Chamber; Church; Coup; England; France; Government; Mr.; Parliament; President; Rome; State; case; catholic; character; christian; english; form; good; great; life; man; moral; nature; pleasure; power; thing; time summary = The dream power--its great place in life 258 of life is a real thing in so far as it saves men from internal other parts of human nature men best attain their own happiness by time when a great philanthropic work would be naturally supported by an their country; men who in time of great national danger and excitement Cases of this kind will continually occur in life, and a good man who theological beliefs among great numbers of educated men; how many things The circumstances of life are the great school for forming and different men, and it is probable that the happiness of a life depends life is that which follows nature and alternates periods of great in their happiness; and in different kinds of life these things have In the case of men who have played a great part in public id = 22050 author = Lees, J. Cameron (James Cameron) title = Life and Conduct date = keywords = CHAPTER; Christ; Church; God; Lord; book; character; christian; good; great; life; man; thing; time; word; work summary = winter-time of life, when the leaves are blown away, men come out and comes to us; we are renewed in the inward man, old things pass away, the life of Christ." The best men are those who come the nearest to Christian faith keeps men in good heart amid good life of a sincere Christian man will silently tell upon others. any man who tells you he does not believe in God, and in a future life life to form a true idea of what good manners are, and to make it his Good temper is a sign that the different powers of the soul are working of life," with all that the words mean, though the world may regard but if a man likes his pleasure better than the duties to which God has _Life: a Book for Young Men_, by J. id = 37988 author = Leslie, Eliza title = The Ladies'' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie''s Behaviour Book date = keywords = CHAPTER; England; English; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Philadelphia; York; american; child; friend; gentleman; good; hand; lady; letter; person; place; room; table; thing; time; young summary = ought also to find a place on the dressing-table, in case the visiter Let the _extra_ articles be placed near the lady of the A gentleman on escorting a lady to her own home, must not leave her till best for the visited lady to meet her friend as soon as she sees her Let all ladies, old and young, avoid having their caps trimmed with No lady can remain long in the drawing-room talking to a gentleman ladies seem not to know) that a note commenced in the first person must Much time is wasted (particularly by young ladies) in writing and London, were requested by the lady of the house to talk a little _are_ ladies, should only visit fancy-fairs in the day-time, when they At a hotel, if the children come to the ladies'' table, they are always If the party is so large that all the ladies cannot go to the table at id = 20151 author = Lewis, Harry A. title = Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail date = keywords = Adams; America; Beecher; Boston; Calhoun; Clay; Congress; England; France; Garfield; General; Gould; Grant; Henry; House; Jackson; James; Jefferson; John; Lee; Lincoln; Madison; Mr.; New; Philadelphia; President; Senate; South; States; Union; United; Virginia; Washington; Webster; York; great; man summary = period of successful trade--extending over six years'' time, the young if, per chance, one person journeyed to New York and returned to state power in New York State at the time. friends entreat; in vain did wise business men shake their heads; Mr. Childs felt that his time had come, and he bought the paper, paying for In 1844 James was elected Mayor of the great city of New York. life-work." The young man who thought perhaps Girard was going to set years, becoming the most noted man in the State, having prospered great man is: "How did he begin?" George Peabody began life in Danvers, Years View; or a History of the Working of the United States Government the great State of New York and resigned his seat in the National "Mr. President: For the second time in this generation the great end of time that he was elected president of the United States, and id = 7952 author = Lubbock, John, Sir title = The Pleasures of Life date = keywords = Bacon; CHAPTER; Emerson; Epictetus; God; Milton; Plato; Poetry; Ruskin; Science; Shakespeare; Sir; St.; art; book; day; good; great; life; like; love; man; music; nature; thing; time; work; world summary = gods," says Marcus Aurelius, "have put all the means in man''s power to this little earth?" "All rising to great place," says Bacon, "is by a No doubt, much as worthy friends add to the happiness and value of life, The life of man is seventy years, but how little of this is actually our Time indeed, is a sacred gift, and each day is a little life. Man''s great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things; or that there is no "Health," said Simonides long ago, "is best for mortal man; next beauty; The original human nature, he says, was not like the present. Love and Reason divide the life of man. "In true Art," says Ruskin, "the hand, the head, and the heart of man go "Work," says Nature to man, "in every hour, paid or unpaid; see only that life, in Arts, in Sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, id = 17201 author = Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell) title = Is Life Worth Living? date = keywords = Bible; CHAPTER; Catholic; Christianity; Church; Dr.; God; Huxley; Mr.; Professor; Stephen; Tyndall; happiness; life; man; moral; nature; positive; question; thing; way; world summary = The worth the positive school claim for life, is essentially a moral This means that life contains some special prize, to which morality That the fundamental moral question is, ''_In what way shall the The positive school profess to answer this question both ways 234 human nature itself; it is a kind of maundering common to all moral the dignity of man''s moral and spiritual life._'' But here comes the external things, the world in its present state could no more work moral end that in some way or other it be generally presentable, so that social morality, the only possible meaning of the _general good_, is not importance of the moral end is a thing that the facts of life, as we now thing for us that we should be happy; and if it be true that the moral We may mean that as a matter of fact men generally give a full assent to id = 57260 author = Mandeville, Bernard title = The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits date = keywords = Bees; Cleo; Divine; England; Europe; Fable; God; Heaven; Hor; London; Lord; Providence; Sir; body; christian; come; creature; good; great; lordship; love; man; mean; nation; nature; passion; people; reason; society; speak; thing; time; virtue; want; world summary = are known by every body: When a man in power gives a great place to brave, generous, good-natured, and endued with the virtues he thinks that the generous notions concerning the natural goodness of man and good nature, in believing that a man of your principles could be and replace things in that natural view, which all just, knowing men Hor. But who knows, what to make of a man, who recommends a thing Hor. Do you think women have more pride from nature than men? Hor. Where men are certain that the truth of a thing is not to be Hor. But was not man by nature designed for society? man in the state of nature would think, and which way he would reason Hor. I was thinking on the man to whom we are in a great measure these things, and what we know of the nature of man, it is hardly id = 7819 author = Mandeville, Bernard title = An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War date = keywords = Army; Church; Clergy; God; Gospel; Honour; Human; Men; People; Principle; Virtue; day; man; reason; religion; self; soldier; thing; time summary = Hor. When what you call Self-liking, that just Esteem which Men have Hor. Don''t mistake me: I am far from believing, that Men of Sense and Hor. But would Men be more sway''d by Things they believed only, than Thinking, and a real Love of Virtue and Reasonableness of Mens Hor. I believe, that among the Men of Honour Many were tainted with Hor. I should have no great Opinion of a Man''s Honour, who would not Hor. The Fear of Shame cannot restrain Men in Things that are done in Hor. I don''t know any Thing but the Principle of Honour, that is Hor. But is he serious, when he speaks of the Men of ancient Honour, Hor. Don''t you think, that many Believers have been worse Men, than them, as very good Men; and it is a Principle, which a Man may as id = 45387 author = Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title = Morality Without God A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society date = keywords = God; Jesus; christian; morality; religion summary = the importance of the church in the moral education of the people. The question: Can there be any morality without a belief in God, is a brought up, is, that morality is impossible without a belief in God. The scientist''s position is that morality is independent of a belief in God. The scientist does not deny dogmatically, the existence of a God. The "No God, no morals," says the theologian. cannot last without morality, and if he can get the people to think that The believer in God argues that to question the existence of But to call the man who questions the existence of God wicked, is no The god of the Christian believes in the there can be no morality without God when analyzed, comes to this: There People will not be moral without the belief in a future life. true, then the proposition that without God there can be no morality id = 19432 author = Mapes, Victor title = Heart and Soul by Maveric Post date = keywords = Bible; God; boy; child; feeling; heart; individual; kind; life; little; love; man; mother; people; reason; soul; thing; time; way summary = feel like doing, there ought to be a good and sufficient reason. Most young people have had very little experience of many things that A little boy or girl of the right sort, with the right kind of loving Some people might feel inclined to smile at this account of a mother''s certain kind of man feels compelled by his sense of honor to protect is there any other deep and general feeling of man''s inner nature which If a mother would naturally feel this way on her death-bed, so might a different thing from an individual''s purpose in life, from man''s But in regard to man''s inner feelings, the soul life, because the big fundamental feelings of man''s better nature are absolutely modern science, as they affect the life and ideas and feelings of the She wants her boy to feel this way about it, too. id = 18394 author = Marden, Orison Swett title = Cheerfulness as a Life Power date = keywords = God; Mr.; day; good; great; happy; laugh; life; little; look; man; work summary = sunny side of things, and to take a little time every day to speak "It is a good thing to laugh, at any rate," said Dryden, the poet, "and Happy, then, is the man, who may well laugh to himself over his good "My children," said a dying man, "during my long life I have had a great bright, cheerful, hopeful, contented man who makes his way, who is "Health and good humor," said Massillon, "are to the human body like their lives like sunlight, making their hearts glad with little things, nature to produce happiness." To do good with it, makes life a delight "If a word or two will render a man happy," said a Frenchman, "he must And what better can be said than to compare the heart''s good cheer to a "Cheerfulness," says Ruskin, "is as natural to the heart of a man in id = 41901 author = Marden, Orison Swett title = The Victorious Attitude date = keywords = Creator; Divine; Father; God; doubt; faith; good; great; ideal; life; love; man; mental; mind; poverty; power; thing; thought; way; work summary = all things possible, often makes cynics and world-weary people smile. the door to all things desirable in life; doubt closes them. Men who have achieved great things could not account for their faith; The abiding faith in a Power which will bring things out right in the new life when we know that our great Father-Mother-God is on the other really going to begin his great life work, but doubt has engendered the ideal, by thinking and reading about heroic people and things, holding poverty ideal, the poorhouse thought in his mind, he is driving No man can become prosperous as long as he holds in his mind the picture the things that are good for you can come into your life. inspiring mental attitude, the hopeful way in which they face life, work she will do in life with the ideal man of her girlish dreams by her id = 36048 author = Martine, Arthur title = Martine''s Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness date = keywords = Mr.; company; conversation; friend; gentleman; good; lady; leave; manner; party; people; person; place; room; table; time summary = Never over-praise any absent person, especially ladies, in company of On introduction in a room, a married lady generally offers her hand, a It is always best for the lady of the house, where a dinner-party is to It is not in good taste for the lady of the house, where a dinner-party When dinner is on the table, the lady and gentleman of the house will nothing is wanting to their guests, the lady and gentleman of the house The lady and gentleman of the house are, of course, helped last, and If a gentleman is seated by the side of a lady or elderly person, At a private party, a gentleman may offer to dance with a lady without unengaged, a lady and gentleman should avoid long conversations, as they A lady, invited to an evening party, may request a gentleman to is every gentleman''s and lady''s duty to be polite in all places. id = 9402 author = Maxwell, M. H. (Mary H.) title = Be Courteous, or, Religion, the True Refiner date = keywords = Dora; Emma; Fanny; Graffam; Lindsay; Mary; Miss; Mrs.; Susan summary = "What a singular girl is Emma," said one of the young ladies who looked "So Emma thought," said Mrs. Lindsay, "and had the frankness to tell "Of course," said Fanny, looking suddenly at Emma, "you think Miss "There is a good old lady living with my mother," said Emma, "who is "Good-morning, Mr. Graffam," said Emma, who was in the garden when the "I was at your house yesterday," continued Emma, "and promised Mrs. Graffam that I would bring a good old lady living with us to see her; "I never thought," said another, "that I should come to love Emma "It is a dear child," said Emma; "and perhaps, Mr. Graffam, it may "Good-morning, Mr. Sliver," said Emma. And Emma replied, "Yes, Mrs. Graffam; _I_ will come as long as I am "Nothing," said Emma; "only love me: if you can do that, Fanny, I shall id = 17781 author = McGovern, John title = The Golden Censer Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the future date = keywords = Bible; Chicago; Dr.; England; God; Lord; Napoleon; Shakspeare; Sir; child; day; death; find; good; great; home; hope; illustration; life; like; little; look; love; man; marriage; mind; money; old; thing; time; true; way; woman; year; young summary = the young men just starting in practical life, some things less general History--Woman''s Enormous Influence over Man--How Men Live Where There The Young Man Finds Himself in Love and "Begins to Think"--He Wonders Point, the Start in Real Life--To Be a Man Is to Be Married--Nature''s A Practical Chapter on Life as It Is Actually Lived by a Man and Woman The young man of good quality will begin his life glory of the man," says the great Book. age," says the great and good poet Longfellow; "and I love not the man The best men of a great city have given that young man encouragement. than separated in life." "A man of sense may love like a madman," says the life of man," says Madame DeStael, "is the entire history of woman''s Let us look at Gladstone as the great, wise, good, learned man he is, id = 35354 author = McHugh, John A. (John Ambrose) title = Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities date = keywords = Baptism; Canon; Christ; Church; Communion; Confirmation; Cor; Eucharist; Extreme; Ghost; Gift; God; Holy; John; Law; Lord; Mass; Matrimony; Matt; Moral; New; Paul; Penance; Sacrament; St.; Sunday; Unction; act; case; catholic; duty; e.g.; good; marriage; matter; order; person; reason; sin; sqq; virtue summary = laws do not bind under grave sin, when the matter or the danger is not even a venial sin, for we must obey God rather than man (Acts, v. external acts; divine law can regulate things pertaining to the nature moral virtue that inclines a private person to use lawful means for the of consent to sin), no reason excuses an act even of a non-sexual kind, obliges under pain of grave sin, because it determines a necessary act Precept is a grave duty, because the Church makes it the necessary act with sin is lawful for a sufficient reason (see 1515 sqq.), one may confession are of grave obligation, from Church law at least (Canon to avoid grave sin, for charity to self obliges one to use the means (a) The remote matter of this Sacrament is the personal sins committed Sacrament voluntarily and without good reason, is guilty of grave sin id = 26254 author = McKee, Mabel Anne title = The Heart of the Rose date = keywords = Floyd; Rose summary = "Rose gave it to me; she told me a long time ago that she was making me It took Rose a long time to make this book of watching it unfold like a real rose. The sister saw Floyd move very close to the girl and lay his hand Rose coloured as he gave her a significant look. When the girls rose to go, have to see Rose''s mother to-night; to-morrow you can see the girls "I know you heard what I said to Rose, I don''t want a girl all the fellows can love; but I''m different. "The little book of memories that Rose he enjoyed this; then he wanted to get nearer to these roses, to handle If you had kissed Rose to-night rose, and then enjoy the heart when it is opened. Rose''s little book will help you. know what was in the heart of the rose book. id = 43439 author = Miller, John Ormsby title = Short Studies in Ethics: An Elementary Text-Book for Schools date = keywords = Character; Conscience; Courage; God; ambition; boy; duty; great; life; man; self summary = virtue of the great law of necessity, whereas man is free. once said: "A man shall carry a bucket of water on his head and be very his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living _soul_." We owe Boys sometimes think it a manly thing to question the orders given them, Plutarch said: "If any man think it a small matter to bridle his tongue, Ambition often destroys the character of the man who gives way to it. For that boy, or young man, to drink once is to form a Let a young man give way a few times to impure imaginations and men and boys do take exercise spasmodically--one day a great deal, and No man ever kept a friend for a long time A great man once said that when he was a small boy he was walking one id = 13588 author = Moore, John Hamilton title = The Young Gentleman and Lady''s Monitor, and English Teacher''s Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety date = keywords = America; Balsora; Columbus; God; Helim; Lord; Mr.; Providence; Rome; SPECTATOR; Sir; St.; company; day; friend; good; great; hand; king; life; like; little; look; maker; man; manner; mind; nature; person; place; pleasure; rise; speak; tell; thing; time; virtue; world summary = For a man''s knowledge is of little use to the world, when he nature, and bring great satisfaction to the person who can busy himself Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing, is placing confidence: the man of the world knows, that, whether difficult looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man The cast of mind which is natural to a discreet man, makes him look the same time run a man thro'' the body that spoke ill of his friend. arising out of a man''s mind, body or fortune, it makes him easy under Make, then, good-breeding the great object of your thoughts and actions. man may say very good things, but time them so ill, and address them so id = 11557 author = Morley, John title = On Compromise date = keywords = Church; England; Footnote; God; Mill; Mr.; good; great; idea; life; man; opinion; political; principle; reason; social; society; thing; time; truth; way summary = In religion, morals, and politics, the suppression of your true opinion, false to true opinions with prudence, and this every sensible man his conduct to what he considers truths useful to men, but who compromising truth in the matter of forming and holding opinions. said that ''an opinion gravely professed by a man of sense and education importance in the way in which men think about religion, bear directly Besides the great change which such a point of view makes in men''s way can a new social state ever establish its ideas, unless the persons who conduct--in the direction of new truth and the better practice. course, think his own opinions right; for if he thought them wrong, they truth of your own opinions is independent of any special idea as to the right, but, like the rest of its author''s opinions, on principles of id = 16937 author = Morley, John title = Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3), Essay 1: Vauvenargues date = keywords = Footnote; Molière; Pascal; Voltaire; character; man; vauvenargue summary = Birth, education, and hard life of Vauvenargues 4 over the world, and Vauvenargues did the same things that young men in Vauvenargues was probably enough of a man of the world to take fair greatness as Vauvenargues, than many years of intercourse with ''The thought of death,'' said Vauvenargues, ''leads us astray, high poetic imagination, which Vauvenargues did not possess, or else Reasonableness is the strongest mark in Vauvenargues'' thinking; balance, Bacon as a moralist and Pascal or Vauvenargues, is the difference Vauvenargues all mean _character_. said that great thoughts come from the heart, but La Rochefoucauld, who inclinations naturally and easily direct our will and actions; virtue is Vauvenargues observed men. ''A man of the world is not he who knows other men best, who has most Vauvenargues felt too seriously about conduct and character to go far in Vauvenargues has a saying to the effect that men very often, without id = 49263 author = Mortimer, Geoffrey title = The Blight of Respectability An Anatomy of the Disease and a Theory of Curative Treatment date = keywords = England; Mr.; Mrs.; Pugsley; Respectability; Villadom; class; english; gentleman; good; great; life; like; little; man; moral; respectable; society; woman summary = "You live a respectable man, but I ask Burns as "respectable men?" No great man has ever been, or ever can be, heard of a truly noble man or woman who was also respectable? respectability has upon the middle-class mind than the treatment of Mr. Bradlaugh, not only at the hands of rabid sectarians, but by timorous Yes, to be appraised as a thoroughly respectable man among Philistines, No thralls to Respectability can ever be natural men and women. Curumbas women present to the "respectable English ladies" of Calcutta? I hold that the terms lady and gentleman, like the word Respectable, The other day I read a letter from a young English Respectable settled When Respectability has a strong hold on a man''s moral sense, there is I like to hear the working man speak his mind on the Respectables. we had the taint of Respectability in us (and very few men and women id = 20470 author = Morton, Agnes H. title = Etiquette date = keywords = Mr.; Mrs.; card; dinner; good; guest; home; hostess; invitation; lady; leave; man; people; social; table; visit; woman; young summary = It is not good form to use _merely honorary titles_ on visiting-cards. young woman becomes an identity socially, and has her separate card, CASES IN WHICH PERSONAL CARD-LEAVING IS REQUIRED CASES IN WHICH PERSONAL CARD-LEAVING IS REQUIRED considerate to send cards, invitations, etc., to such people by the invited guest attends the wedding he leaves or sends cards within a in person at the time indicated, leaving cards with the servant as they reflection on the good manners of the people invited. to a certain number of guests_, as dinners, card parties, and certain DINNER CARDS OF INVITATION may have this form: FOR A FORMAL LUNCHEON OR BREAKFAST the invitation cards are similar in social, guests come and leave at any time within the hours specified on invites a coterie of girl friends to meet the guest of honor, giving invitation, allowing time to pay respects to the host and hostess, id = 37998 author = Nordau, Max Simon title = Morals and the Evolution of Man date = keywords = Custom; Free; God; Instinct; Kant; Law; Morality; Nature; action; bad; community; force; good; individual; life; man; moral; pleasure; reason; right; society; state; time summary = For the Stoics, too, Morality is action in accordance with the law of until man becomes a member of a moral community that the ideas of Duty all rights to pronounce an objective moral judgment on any human action. impulses, to make moral laws for the select few who are its natural moral actions it originates in the self-satisfaction of Reason, in its moral law of the community, for it is only by means of a vigorous social As the Moral law originated to meet the needs of the community, and was possible, prescribes to the individual the laws governing his moral objections with which they victoriously opposed natural Law. The beginnings of Morality coincide with the beginnings of society, as he really means by natural Law is Morality, and in this respect his the individual submits to the Moral law of his own accord, or because he id = 22417 author = Ordway, Edith B. (Edith Bertha) title = The Etiquette of To-day date = keywords = Etiquette; Mr.; Mrs.; President; States; card; form; friend; good; guest; home; letter; man; place; social; wedding; woman summary = A gentleman usually presents such a letter by calling in person and An unmarried woman calling on a married friend leaves only one card. If the friend has daughters or is entertaining a guest, a card may be A gentleman who calls on a lady''s afternoon at home leaves in the card mother on her card, before the young woman enters formally into For the card of invitation to the wedding reception the wording is as In case the wedding takes place in the country and invitations are An immediate reply is necessary when one is invited to a home wedding. home for the quiet social hour before the family dinner. When a hostess wishes to have her friends meet an expected guest, she As the guests enter the drawing-room the hostess shakes hands with At the bride''s home there is now time, before the guests arrive, for id = 6101 author = Palmer, George Herbert title = The Nature of Goodness date = keywords = Ethics; VII; consciousness; good; goodness; iii; life; man; nature; person; sacrifice; self; thing summary = It is true, this strange state of things is not peculiar to goodness. personal goodness, but no such perpetual motion is possible to things. are merely different modes or points of view for assessing goodness represents a natural desire, they cannot all be counted equally good. goodness which are common alike to persons and to things. making of things, these conditions will render personal goodness to comprehend the nature of personal goodness, and detect its separation organize experiences and know a single self running through them all. man possesses full self-consciousness, while other creatures have action; for in fact wherever self-consciousness appears, there is personal good is to come to me, it must be of my making. Goodness, to be personal, must express perpetual self-development. goodness is everywhere expressive of organization, personal conduct is far from regarding self-consciousness as a ground of goodness, are id = 455 author = Parlette, Ralph Albert title = The University of Hard Knocks date = keywords = God; Gussie; Hard; Knocks; Mississippi; Moses; University; bump; day; great; life; man; south summary = "stop, look, listen"--Blind man learns with one bump--Going up requires stop--Few go on south--The plague of incompetents--Today our best day, best--Waiting for the second table--Better days on south--Overcoming How the old devil works day and night to keep people amused and doped want these young people to live thirty years before they see it. schools, the pulpits, the homes--every place where we live or work is The success, joy and glory of life are in learning, growing, going We young people come up into life wanting great places. not know all the great people who may come and stand upon this floor. The great people are so busy serving that they have little time to hands lived in the little dirty houses and worked six days of the week little old man often said, "I''m going to give that boy the best As long as people keep on going south, they keep on living. id = 22135 author = Perry, Ralph Barton title = The Moral Economy date = keywords = Book; Christianity; God; III; Plato; art; chapter; form; good; interest; life; man; moral; morality; principle; religion summary = good, but only _the fulfilment of an organization of interests_ is it is impossible to conceive moral goodness exclusively in terms of any concerning the place of _pleasure_ in moral goodness. with the higher forms of moral goodness. Moral procedure, then, differs from life in its more elementary form, conviction of moral truth, the enlightened recognition of the good.[6] shall present morality as a set of principles as inherent in conduct, formal aspects of life, it is interesting to observe a certain Good-will is the moral condition of religion, where this is corrected whatever fulfils interests, and as morally good whatever fulfils all motive of life, and maximum fulfilment be the good, then any existing offered men _a good reason_ for reorganizing life. define the living of life are moral. the good shall mean only life as it is already possessed. Moral idealism means to interpret life consistently with ethical, id = 58136 author = Pitt-Rivers, George Henry Lane Fox title = Conscience & Fanaticism: An Essay on Moral Values date = keywords = Divine; God; Hudson; James; conscience; emotion; fact; good; great; man; mind; moral; suggestion; value summary = moral law from the facts of experience and of nature. is held that a moral judgment differs from a statement of fact, which is organ: the force of cosmic suggestion on morality: Public opinion: emotional suggestions: individual ultimate doubt as to the character of moral "good," which can in no way emotional factors which do, in fact, colour and distort all moral has truly said that moral values are dependent on power-conditions; THE LAWS OF SUGGESTION AND "SUBJECTIVE MIND" THE LAWS OF SUGGESTION AND "SUBJECTIVE MIND" organisms the subjective mind of men records not only the result of its resistance.) "The subjective mind, or man in the hypnotic state," on the suggestion."[52] In this condition the subjective mind accepts naturally follows that the subjective mind of an individual is as and the result of suggestion in normal and emotion states, similarity of essentially instinctive, emotional and suggested elements we have been id = 14314 author = Post, Emily title = Etiquette date = keywords = Dear; English; Europe; Gilding; Jim; John; Jones; Kindhart; Mary; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Norman; President; Smith; Town; Worldly; York; american; card; chapter; come; dinner; friend; gentleman; good; guest; house; illustration; invitation; lady; letter; room; table; thank; wear; wedding; young summary = dinner, men in the smoking room or left at table always talk to their At the evening performance in New York a lady wears a dinner dress; a failed to pay her or his "party call" after having been invited to Mrs. Social-Leader''s ball was left out of her list when she gave her next one. people who liked to be asked to her house were apt to leave an extra one has three grown daughters and her mother living in the house, and a Mrs. Stranger staying with her whom the visitor was invited to a luncheon to A pretty young woman whose men friends come in occasionally and play cards improvised dressing-table for the ladies, since modern people--in New York At a dinner party given for young people in a private house, a somewhat young people go to the bride''s house for tea, allowing her parents to have id = 8103 author = Rickaby, Joseph title = Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law date = keywords = Aristotle; CHAPTER; Divine; Eternal; Ethics; Footnote; God; Greek; III; Justice; Law; Moral; Natural; Plato; Rousseau; St.; State; Thomas; Thos; act; end; good; man; nature; reason; right; section; thing summary = [Greek: to deon], i.e., of what _ought_ to be done), and Natural Law. For if "the principal business of Ethics is to determine what moral human reason lays down certain good rules, "laws of nature" which this life so to act as to acquire a habit of lifting his mind to God. There are two things here, to lift the mind, and to lift it to God. The mind is not lifted, if the man lives not an intellectual life, but 9. Moral good and evil are predicable only of _human acts_, in the properly a means to the end, that a man may come away from it better that though there is no natural virtue of which the law of man may not natural exigency amounts to in man in regard to his human acts, we 53-57.) In this way virtue becomes naturally a very good thing for id = 12426 author = Routledge, George title = Routledge''s Manual of Etiquette date = keywords = Britain; Deux; England; Polka; Sir; Temps; Valse; bar; couple; dance; dress; foot; friend; gentleman; good; hand; illustration; lady; party; person; place; right; room; time summary = lady through a dance does not give the gentleman any right to bow to lady through a dance does not give the gentleman any right to bow to However fashionable it may be to wear very long dresses, those ladies However fashionable it may be to wear very long dresses, those ladies Even in private balls, no gentleman can invite a lady to dance without Good taste forbids that a lady and gentleman should dance too _4th Figure_.--Top lady and _vis-à-vis_ gentleman advance four steps; lady''s left hand; advance again; gentleman leaves his partner in The gentleman starts with his left foot, the lady with her right. bars); ladies cross again, giving each other left hands, and right to Place two couples side by side, the lady standing at the right hand lady turns off to the right, gentleman to the left, each followed by id = 19696 author = Schauffler, Robert Haven title = The Joyful Heart date = keywords = Auto; Comrade; God; New; american; art; city; day; good; great; joy; life; like; man; master; music; old; poet; poetry; thing; time; work; world summary = what the true artist enjoys when inspiration comes too fast and full vitalized man possesses real life and liberty, and finds happiness the artist in life, solitude is solitariness plus the Auto-Comrade. average man likes this new type better and does not want to jeer at men may always turn, if they will, to those dead poets of old who live special thing that the new form of city life does to injure poetry is time the poet--like almost every one else in the city--was unable to for making it possible for our few real poets to produce works, and type of city life, it became no longer possible for the poets to put that he might realize how little good the poet of genius can derive might make it possible for one of these new poets to come into his Those who know that man''s musical taste tends to grow better and not id = 41632 author = Sherwood, M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) title = The Art of Entertaining date = keywords = Christmas; Easter; England; Europe; France; Italy; Lady; London; Lord; Louis; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Paris; Prince; Princess; Queen; Rhine; St.; York; american; art; child; cook; country; day; dinner; egg; english; entertain; french; german; good; great; house; italian; like; little; old; table; wine; young summary = English dinners of to-day are superlatively good and agreeable in the A young hostess must try to find the good, true, honourable, generous, "''It is a bit heavy for Madame''s little hands,'' said the old man. sugar, and cream, a plate of toast, eggs boiled, with cup, spoon, salt Ladies dress for a large dinner often in low neck and short sleeves, dressed and good to put at the end of a dinner for unexpected guests. What a different genius was Prescott, who had a good dinner every day breakfast a little bacon or an egg, or some smoked fish; for dinner, fifty years ago in great houses in England, where the cook was called A young man on coming into a great city, or into a new place where he no dressing for dinner; but in a country house, where there are great houses a very fine dinner, and splendid pieces of plate, some id = 8399 author = Sherwood, M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) title = Manners and Social Usages date = keywords = Brown; CHAPTER; England; Europe; France; London; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Newport; Sunday; Year; York; american; card; come; day; dinner; dress; english; french; gentleman; good; house; lady; manner; people; servant; silver; society; table; wedding; woman; young summary = not acquainted, always leave a card for the lady of the house. He calls on the mother or chaperon; the young lady may be sent card, unless she is asked to a wedding or dinner, a ladies'' lunch For reception days a lady wears a plain, dark, rich dress, taking ladies send their cards to the young brides who have come into a The lady of the house writes the name of the invited guest in the A lady may use her own visiting cards for five-o''clock tea. People who are asked to the wedding send cards to the house if New York, where young ladies are introduced to society by means of One lady in New York was known to answer a dinner invitation The young lady was dressed in a very conspicuous manner: onslaught on ladies who invited young men to drink on New-Year''s no men talk to women about "ladies," in fashionable society. id = 16520 author = Slattery, Margaret title = The Girl and Her Religion date = keywords = God; Sunday; girl; good; great; help; life; little; school; teacher; thing; work; year summary = such a way that girls obliged to work away from home may be decently fifteen-year-old girl who that day made paper boxes, feathers, flowers her mother''s heart the girl I had watched all day with such pleasure of a group of girls and boys who made things hard for the teacher, a of fine boys and girls she went through the high school with the love help the girl see the great need a real naturalist would one day feel parents, teachers and friends, who hope to awaken the indifferent girl. The teacher helped that mother to see that a girl of fourteen is old A wise teacher, awakened parents, a good friend, a live church, a great girl who helped her invent the things she told her mother when she came the Sunday-school or the home, the girl must be impressed with the fact id = 14418 author = Smiles, Samuel title = Thrift date = keywords = Bank; CHAPTER; Chadwick; Crossley; Dr.; England; God; Halifax; John; London; Lord; Manchester; Mr.; Office; Penny; Post; Savings; Sikes; Sir; Society; Yorkshire; class; english; footnote; good; great; home; labour; life; man; money; self; time; work; year summary = Bilston--Savings of working men--Penny banks--Charles W. pennies--The thrifty woman--A helpful wife--A man''s daily life--The two comparatively recent times that men gathered seeds for food, and saved a I want to know, when the working man comes from his daily labour to his We all know that many working men, earning good At the same time, a man who feels that he has some good work in him, hard-working man,--thrifty, frugal and a great saver of time. building-society is thus a savings bank, where money accumulates for a wages, comforts the working classes, and at the same time provides the establish a Provident Sick Society and Penny Savings Bank for the A respectably dressed working man, when making a payment one day at the A man may work hard, and earn high wages; but if he allows the pennies, greater practical good by enabling working people to save their money in id = 2541 author = Smiles, Samuel title = Character date = keywords = Bible; Burke; Charles; Dr.; Duke; England; English; Footnote; France; George; God; Herbert; Johnson; Lord; Luther; Milton; Mr.; Mrs.; Napoleon; Scott; Shakspeare; Sir; St.; Washington; Wellington; William; character; french; good; great; history; life; like; love; man; mind; time; woman; work summary = pure thoughts, and noble aims--for the great men of former times, and is but continuous humanity influenced by men of character--by great The life of nations, as of men, is a great treasury of experience, preparative for a life of public work and duty; and the man who loves The life of a good man is at the same time the Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation time, the methodical man may be justly said to call it into life and kinds, whether in life or in philosophy, was hateful to him." Dr. Marshall Hall was a man of like spirit--courageously truthful, dutiful, shall live long," he then said to a friend; "my mind will--must work expensive luxuries in life." Dr. Johnson once said: "Sir, a man has no And when men have done their duty through life in a great id = 12492 author = Sorley, W. R. (William Ritchie) title = Recent Tendencies in Ethics Three Lectures to Clergy Given at Cambridge date = keywords = Absolute; Bradley; Green; Nietzsche; Reality; appearance; footnote; moral summary = As regards the former question--that of the origin of moral ideas--the From their view as to the origin of moral ideas, the school might more moral ideas have been developed and have come to take their place in ''evolution of ethics'' or development of morality. the value for man of different kinds of conduct and feeling and idea. suggestion is simply this--that moral qualities are selected in the having a moral value outside of and above natural selection and the Now, when the phrase ''natural selection in morals'' is used, the question the process and principle of natural selection can give no express the nature of the moral ideal. the question, What is moral good?"[3] wrong, can ally ourselves with the good, and follow a moral ideal, of difference in moral worth or goodness. had said that "the moral good is that which satisfies the desire of a id = 14679 author = Soulsby, Lucy Helen Muriel title = Stray Thoughts for Girls date = keywords = God; Sunday; Virtuous; Woman; duty; feel; girl; good; home; life; like; love; school; thing; time; work summary = home people feel jealous of school, and say it has cut a girl off from her Higher education often makes girls feel it waste of time to write notes mind open, get new ideas, read the books in the house, instead of taking a your ideas of reading sensible books and doing kind things for friends and you must not feel absolved from duties at home, because you do good works have a good time, but think of _her_ pleasure and amusement; mothers realize that a girl wants to find duties and kind things to do, and so mean talk about the things which belong to your future life, but which mind with other people''s thoughts by reading, but you could work out your good time; she does not wait till the very day the thing is wanted and whether it was a good thing in girls'' schools. to feel there are other things in life. id = 46129 author = Spencer, Herbert title = The Data of Ethics date = keywords = CHAPTER; Ethics; Mr.; Principles; action; conduct; end; feeling; form; general; good; great; happiness; kind; life; man; pain; pleasure; result; state summary = definition of conduct which emerges is either acts adjusted to ends, or acts to ends subserving individual life and the rearing of offspring, adjustment of acts to ends in maintaining individual life and rearing conduct which achieves each kind of end is regarded as relatively good; state, both makes possible and requires a form of conduct such that conduct is good or bad according as its total effects are pleasurable which makes happiness of a certain kind and degree its end; and the natural relations, happiness is produced by this kind of conduct, which For the general truth that guidance by such simple pleasures and pains that the pleasures and pains directly related to maintenance of life of pleasures over pains should be the end of action, because the again brings out the result that making "general happiness" the end "the general happiness," is the proper end of action, then not only id = 18438 author = Stapleton, John H. (John Henry) title = Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals date = keywords = Almighty; CHAPTER; Catholic; Christ; Church; Commandment; God; LIGUORI; Law; St.; Sunday; child; christian; evil; faith; good; life; love; man; moral; net; reason; right; sin; thing; true; truth; way; world summary = MORALS pertain to right living, to the things we do, in relation to God faith we know God, by moral living we serve Him; and this double we believe essential to the shaping of a good moral life; for man, between right and wrong is responsible to God for the good and evil he the Law of God. A sin may be committed in thought, in desire, in word, true God, I also violate the virtue of religion, but commit a sin authority of man or of God. Here we have the sin of pride in all the thing when directed towards God, and another where man is concerned. requirements, breaks the law, offends God and sins. animal nature as the act by which God created man is superior to all his aversion, offends against the law of nature, of charity and of God. CHAPTER LVIII. id = 13877 author = Starke, D. title = Poise: How to Attain It date = keywords = cause; exercise; lack; man; mind; people; poise; power; reason; timid; timidity summary = The man who possesses poise is too familiar with the realities of life The man who cultivates poise will never let pass such opportunities as deficient in poise to a special form of reasoning, which causes them to The man of real poise is like the child who, disclaiming the transitory lack of poise which prevents them from proper expression, such people Poise calls for action, when this becomes necessary; but the man of In achieving the conquest of poise certain physical exercises, practised people who are desirous of acquiring poise, as aside from the advantages Many people only lack poise because they fear ridicule of their obvious The man who has acquired poise should still accustom himself to practise The man who does not yet possess poise, will be wise if he follows the This is the reason why people who are gifted with poise find themselves id = 15419 author = Starrett, Helen Ekin title = Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls date = keywords = God; LETTER; girl; good; great; life; manner; people; young summary = manners of many young people of the present day, I want to impress upon self-control affects the lives of young people in a few particulars. for life very different motives and aims influence young girls from young girl''s life; but with this should be other aims, which may help to love-making period in the life of all good young people, and never The room of any young girl is a great revealer of character in respect granted that a young person possesses animation good sense, thing is very certain: that in these days young people, when out of their associates and friends; but young people especially are And so I would wish to see you and all young people cultivate tact; The young person who would cultivate tact in speech and manners will social life of young people is opposed to the cultivation or expression id = 22177 author = Sullivan, W. R. Washington (William Robert Washington) title = Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles date = keywords = Christ; Christian; Church; Churches; Comte; Divine; Emerson; God; Helbeck; Immanuel; Infinite; Jesus; Kant; Lord; Mr.; Spencer; ethical; great; law; life; man; mind; moral; nature; power; religion; soul; world summary = unquestionable facts of man''s moral nature. "man''s sense of law" filled his soul, shedding henceforth an unfading Moral life its ideal and reverence Conscience as "the highest, holiest" Kant in the well-known words--_Religion is Morality recognised as a religion is the communion of man''s spirit with the "Over-soul," the manifestation of the working of infinite mind and power, and of man''s Men point to the growth and development of the moral sentiment in man, the world of science and philosophy, so the undoubted fact that man was fact of ethical law, the primeval intuition of the awakened spirit of man called death fixes the moral state of man for ever, but that all life, moral development, lead man to put off until late in life, sometimes to to create worlds and man out of nothing, and orders men to pray and to to show men that religion is morality, is life. id = 13104 author = Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) title = The Abominations of Modern Society date = keywords = England; God; Lord; New; York; child; christian; city; day; dollar; good; great; hand; house; life; look; man; night; thousand; time; woman; work; year; young summary = Pride of city is natural to men, in all times, if they live or have very heart of our city thousands of houses, devoted to various forms long winter evenings have come, many of our young men will improve young men of the best families drunk on New Year''s day. He was a great man: Shall not chariots of salvation come I would to God men kept young for a greater length of time. men who begrudge a woman the right to work anywhere, in any honorable To thousands of young women of New York to-day there is only this In a gaming-house in San Francisco, a young man having just come all ye pure-hearted young men, and see the work of the fashionable Young man, as you value Heaven, never buy a book from one of those men that gambler, who last night took that young man''s thousand id = 29917 author = Thornton, William Thomas title = Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications date = keywords = Buckle; Comte; Darwin; Descartes; Galton; God; Hume; Huxley; Mill; Mr.; Nature; Professor; Utilitarianism; cause; certain; form; good; history; human; idea; law; life; like; man; matter; mind; place; right; thing summary = mankind, the utilitarian idea of the greatest possible happiness, or, at virtue and morality, right and wrong, are to continue to mean anything person; (2) right equally absolute to dispose similarly of the produce venture to think, need less store be set by that right in consequence of laws as ought to exist,'' what had previously appeared probable is conceivable that the large general causes assumed to regulate human continually taking place in those other general causes which constitute of abstract qualities all our general or class notions are equally ideas different thoughts or ideas of the mind'' is, as he says, sufficiently animated creature, may possibly be directly from God. One thing certain natural laws, it always remains possible for miracles to happen. self-acting forces--equally whether it be the author or merely the laws of universal human nature evidently cannot serve as materials, that the particular generation of human beings at any time existing id = 14312 author = Trine, Ralph Waldo title = What All The World''s A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness date = keywords = Christ; God; Infinite; Master; great; high; life; man; power; thought; time; true summary = Or, The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness soon see, every life that has been really true, great, and happy has forgetting self, makes the object of his life service, helpfulness, and but another way of saying--a man who gives his life to the service of lives, and so the destinies of men, this same great law of nature that greatness in the world is unselfish love and service and self-devotion Live the life, the power will come. way to help a fellow-man and a brother to the higher and better life is conditions, and keeping myself true to the higher life, the same time powers and so the great laws of self-help. powers, loves and realizations, that human life can know; and so, hand two great and determining facts of human life and destiny,--love to God life''s law: what you live in your thought-world, that, sooner or id = 10591 author = Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay) title = A Lie Never Justifiable: A Study in Ethics date = keywords = Augustine; Bible; Christ; Dr.; Ethics; God; Hodge; Ibid; Lord; Rothe; Smyth; christian; footnote; lie; man; truth summary = Paradise.--Place of Liars.--God True, though Men Lie.--Hebrew Right.--Concealment that is Sinful.--First Duty of Fallen Man.--Brutal yet not feel justified in telling him a lie in order to save his life sin to tell a lie to a man who had forfeited his social rights, than ideal as to the duty of truthfulness and the sin of lying.[1] And so a lie, as by its nature opposed to the truth and the right, is always God tells the simple truth, and to whom the enemy of man tells a lie; Concealment is a prime duty of man; as truly a duty as truth-speaking, The duty of right concealment stands over against the sin of lying. Arguing that a lie is essentially opposed to God''s truth--by which losing of a truth to save a life," and that "to tell a lie for person), is a departure from truth, or lying."[1] And when a man id = 39551 author = Tufts, James Hayden title = Ethics date = keywords = Aristotle; Bentham; Book; Ethics; God; III; Israel; Kant; LITERATURE; Law; Mill; Philosophy; Plato; Principles; Smith; Social; Spencer; State; Theory; United; Vol; act; chapter; character; end; good; greek; group; happiness; history; individual; interest; life; man; mean; moral; morality; problem; right; self; value summary = conduct," or the "moral life." Another way of stating the same thing is habits; a good society has established certain laws and moral codes. definitely moral conceptions of right and duty, good and virtue appear. ethical theory, it will examine the meaning of right and good, of duty personal morality, it means not only a more powerful individual, but a moral ideal on its individual side was expressed by the term "Life." All customary morality made goodness or rightness of character practically The Morally Good Must be Within the Power of the Individual to that man naturally acts from purely selfish motives and that morality social order, (b) That man is naturally selfish, while morality is an Self-Realization as Consequence of Moral Action.=--Every good act inner motive, of the personal attitude towards the moral law, social =The Moral Value of the State.=--If then we take modern social life in id = 5681 author = Unknown title = The Laws of Etiquette; Or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society date = keywords = Brummel; CHAPTER; France; Mr.; gentleman; good; great; lady; man; manner; person summary = confounding together the gentleman and the man of fashion. character are natural ease of manner, and an acquaintance In passing ladies of rank, whom you meet in society, bow, but speaking of persons or politics, for, if the individual is of the table of a gentleman, or in the drawing-room of a lady, The great business in company is conversation. distinctions, is the great art of a man of the world. A young man upon first entering into society should select Each gentleman offers his arm to a lady, and they follow in You should never ask a gentleman or lady at the table to help servants, or persons in a low rank of life, I do not see upon a man''s pretensions to fashion, in England, to speak to women fashionable man to do with time? In ordinary conversation about persons employ the expressions _men_ and _women_; _gentleman_ and _lady_ are _distinctive_ id = 8216 author = Vaknin, Samuel title = Issues in Ethics date = keywords = RTF summary = Copyright (C) 2007 by Lidija Rangelovska. Please see the corresponding RTF file for this eBook. RTF is Rich Text Format, and is readable in nearly any modern word processing program. id = 23092 author = Wagner, Charles title = The Simple Life date = keywords = child; day; good; great; life; like; little; live; man; need; people; simple; simplicity; spirit; thing; time; world summary = things with the calm assurance which life brings to men and women of should remain man, live his life, make toward his goal. deeds, man arrives at a better knowledge of life. Whoever, on the contrary, makes his life serve a good higher than prodigious thing that we call life, one needs have seen its very Another source of light on the path of human life is goodness. education and social life--these things are the result of intemperance What material things does a man need to live under the best conditions? rule in our society we need but watch the lives of men of all classes. think a man can be amused while he has his doubts whether after all life natural that a man''s labor procure him rights to life, and that there be profound springs of life where man feels himself one with other men in id = 8450 author = Ware, Mary G. (Mary Greene) title = The Elements of Character date = keywords = Character; Divine; Father; God; Imagination; Lord; Manners; Thought; affection; christian; conversation; life; love; man; mind; power summary = the feebleness of man''s power to retain in possession the good things of imaginations, and from performing the orderly uses of a life of charity capacities and relations of Affection, Thought, and Life, and look of life places it constantly in our power to make some person more or mind,--the knowledge of what God has created, and not the mere power of Imagination is that power of the mind by which it forms pictures or relations of things in every-day life,--whose Thoughts grasp, and whose we know as the useful arts, which are born of man''s love for physical Reading good works of Imagination in the thoughtful way that has been first form of charity comes in great measure from a love of self. When our characters take form in external Life, Thought must give us leading a life of love we acquire the power of understanding the truth. id = 60484 author = Washington, Booker T. title = Character Building Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the Students of Tuskegee Institute date = keywords = Negro; New; South; Tuskegee; life; man; people; person; thing; want; work summary = grow up to be an individual whom people will like to see coming near things which you observe in the life and work of your teachers. like to ask people to give money for such a young man as that. Now there are a number of things in school life that cause a student to Holland with the life of the country coloured people in the South. discussed, especially by young people--What things pay in life? that any person is educated until he has learned to want to live in that he said to these persons: "This young man does my work better than come in a class of things which are usually looked upon by many people I want you to begin your school life with the idea that you are going their lives object lessons for the people--plant a good school and id = 35975 author = Watson, Lillian Eichler title = Book of Etiquette, Volume I date = keywords = Brown; Dear; John; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; card; child; day; friend; good; home; introduction; invitation; leave; letter; man; wedding; woman summary = and her mother to send small engraved cards to their circle of friends young man may also send notes or cards to his friends, having first distance is invited, a small card like the one following is generally The bride''s mother, the maid of honor and guests leave the home of the Only close relatives and friends should be invited to the home wedding. woman, calls personally and leaves the letter with her own card, or hostess to issue at-home cards, giving the day and hour, or just the for calling on her at-home card, but if she prefers to leave the hour When the call is made on the hostess'' day at home, cards are left on card for the mother of the young friend upon whom she calls. home, the stranger leaves cards with those of a friend. invited to the ceremony of a church wedding, leave cards for the id = 20819 author = Weaver, G. S. (George Sumner) title = Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. date = keywords = Beauty; Dress; Education; Employment; Fashion; Father; Girlhood; God; M.D.; good; happiness; heart; home; life; love; marriage; mind; moral; woman; work; young summary = the World--Married Life must be lived well--Love should rule all 161-176 pure in heart and life, meek, loving, useful, and pious. "strong-minded women," brave of heart and deep of soul, high of purpose of culture and improvement, forgetting that a good heart, a true life, a Does not your love of Dress lead you from the great ends of woman-life? There is a great body of young men who float on the stream of life with a young woman beautiful and useful, but purity in thought, feeling, life, no moral beauty, no glory of soul, nor dignity of character Him who is love, how beautiful is it in woman''s heart! high-minded man than a young woman who lives, acts, speaks, and exerts life--how can such a woman possess weight of character, force of mind, cultured heart and developed mind will love his Home, and generally Wife--Woman the Hope of the World--Married Life must be lived id = 4225 author = Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title = First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life date = keywords = Beauty; CHAPTER; Church; God; Samurai; State; belief; fact; good; great; idea; life; love; man; mind; order; people; personal; socialism; thing; world summary = People are too apt to suppose that in order to discuss morals a man must I think that the time has come when the human mind must take up Essentially man''s mind moves within limits depending upon his individual synthesis of the species, of the development of a common general idea, a In the world of ideas about me, I have found going on a great social and The common man of our civilized world loves not in anything won for Socialism, but for fine-thinking and living people of a general rule of life that all men may try to follow. development of the idea of the world commonweal in the collective mind. things, to one''s self control, the regulation of one''s personal life. of personal love between the individual and the great synthesis of which True love is a synthetic thing, an outcome of life, it is not a id = 26597 author = Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts) title = How to Behave: A Pocket Manual of Republican Etiquette, and Guide to Correct Personal Habits Embracing an Exposition of the Principles of Good Manners; Useful Hints on the Care of the Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-culture, and Behavior at Home; the Etiquette of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, the Street, the Church, Places of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., with Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies date = keywords = Guide; Health; John; M.D.; Manual; Mr.; New; WELLS; York; dress; gentleman; good; lady; life; man; manner; order; person; place; right; work summary = AN EXPOSITION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD MANNERS; USEFUL HINTS ON THE CARE OF THE PERSON, EATING, DRINKING, EXERCISE, HABITS, DRESS, Walking--Hints to the Ladies--Self-Command--Observation--Practical place, a sense of equity, good-will toward our fellow-men, kind genial; respect times, places, observances, and especially persons; we must look upon all social requirements, whether in dress, manners, for good manners and your success with other ladies, fail in no act of Love, duty, and good manners alike require it. As a general rule, no gentleman should be presented to a lady without "Morning calls," the "Illustrated Manners Book" says "are the small gentleman''s dress for occasions of ceremony in general, as follows: Good manners do not require young gentlemen to stand about the door of And what do good manners require of the ladies? This work is, in all respects, one of the best educational hand-books HOW TO READ CHARACTER.--A new illustrated Hand-book of Phrenology and id = 52106 author = Westermarck, Edward title = The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas date = keywords = Aborigines; Account; Africa; Ages; American; Ancient; Ann; Archipelago; Australia; British; Bur; Central; China; Chinese; Christian; Christianity; Church; Coast; Code; Customs; Das; Der; Die; Dr.; East; Eastern; Egyptians; Ellis; England; English; Eskimo; Ethics; Europe; Expedition; Folk; Footnote; Frazer; Geschichte; God; Gold; Great; Greece; Greenland; Guinea; Hebrews; Histoire; Ibid; Idem; Indians; Institutes; Interior; Iroquois; Islanders; Islands; Japan; John; Jour; Journal; Laws; Life; London; Lore; Madagascar; Manners; Manu; Mexico; Middle; Migne; Modern; Moral; Morocco; Mr.; Native; New; North; Northern; Pacific; Peoples; Plato; Primitive; Principles; Professor; Races; Rechtsverhältnisse; Religion; Researches; Robertson; Rome; Savage; Sir; Smith; Soc; Society; South; Southern; Spencer; St.; States; Steinmetz; Stephen; Studien; Supra; Travels; Tribes; Veda; Victoria; Voyage; Wales; West; Westermarck; Western; Williams; Years; York; Zeitschr; history; roman summary = Laws which are based on customs naturally express moral ideas [Footnote 122: According to Harris (_Principles of the Criminal Law_, [Footnote 77: Stephen, _History of the Criminal Law of England_, iii. [Footnote 77: Stephen, _History of the Criminal Law of England_, iii. According to Kafir custom or law, the relatives of a murdered man [Footnote 226: Schoolcraft, _Indian Tribes of the United States_, iii. peoples a person who kills a chief is punished with death, though [Footnote 62: _Idem_, _E[(w]e-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast_, p. [Footnote 58: _Idem_, _Die Sitten und das Recht der Bogos_, p. [Footnote 5: Ellis, _E[(w]e-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast_, [Footnote 5: Ellis, _E[(w]e-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast_, [Footnote 5: Ellis, _E[(w]e-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast_, [Footnote 5: Ellis, _E[(w]e-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast_, [Footnote 5: Ellis, _E[(w]e-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast_, id = 33188 author = Wiggin, Edith E. title = Lessons on Manners for School and Home Use date = keywords = BLACKBOARD; LEE; LESSON; Miss; School; book; good; home; manner; place; young summary = the school-room, but at home and in public places; and years afterwards things, as in their school studies, boys and girls are learning now for We ought to try to make a new scholar feel at home,--help him to become book, or other article before or after school without asking permission. or girl polite and kind away from home and to strangers only, while at the lady will never forget that little girl''s thoughtful politeness. We should cheerfully wait upon old people, and let them feel that young In cars or public places, a boy or girl should never allow an old man or A story is told of a little girl, five years old, who awkwardness in these little things that marks the person unused to good young ought cheerfully to give place to older people, especially to old BOOKS FOR YOUNG LADIES BY POPULAR AUTHORS Illustrated School edition cloth 50 cents Library id = 12020 author = Wilcox, Ella Wheeler title = A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People''s Sons and Daughters date = keywords = Clarence; God; Gordon; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; child; concern; good; life; love; mother; wife; woman; year; young summary = You tell me in your letter that for "a day of life and love with me you principles and ideals, a man who loves you and desires to make a good It is a great art, when a wife knows how to attract a husband year after man, and your mother''s pessimistic ideas of love and marriage have still handsome young girl, that love, and home, and children would mean into the world, since you married the man you loved, and have been happy In every man''s heart, in every woman''s, is this longing to find husbands The man who is worthy of a good girl''s love will understand what it must All young men are reared to think mother-love the most unselfish and No woman loves a man enough to be happy as his That young man married a woman quite as worthy and good as yourself, and id = 39155 author = Williams, Cora May title = A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution date = keywords = Darwin; Ethics; Evolution; God; Greeks; Ibid; Mr.; Philosophy; Science; Social; Spencer; Stephen; action; animal; case; condition; end; feeling; form; good; great; history; human; individual; law; life; man; moral; morality; nature; pleasure; result; sense; society; state; theory; work summary = relation of these to reason, pleasure, pain, and the moral sense, all other forms of animal life changed again and again, man''s physical instance, partial good may result, a far greater general evil is of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of action necessarily consciousness grows; the feeling of moral obligation in general arising "But the Good, or End of Action, is a possible object of knowledge difference between conduct that regards human beings as mere means to hand, a too great subjection of individual interests makes a man a mere motives directed to the good of the individual are at work, the action As far as morality concerns itself with the individual, the good act In the good man, the pleasure of attainment is the ethical sense of the individual differences between organic beings in a state of nature, "good-natured" has come to have a certain idea of mental and moral id = 5068 author = Wilson, Woodrow title = On Being Human date = keywords = human; life; man; thing; world summary = reflection; the thought is a living thing, not an image appear that we shall find men sane and human about a country Men have indeed written like human beings in the shall clear our minds and quicken us to act as those who know The great captains of the world have been men who were self-interest, to look abroad upon all the field of man''s life at which is man''s alone, of the life he shall live, and finds out Have you never marked the eyes of a man who has seen the world he That man seems to me a little less than human who lives as if our and power to humanity, which gives range to every good quality world itself, and the word "human" is filled with new meaning. in the great world, know men in all their kinds, choose its way id = 5078 author = Wilson, Woodrow title = When a Man Comes to Himself date = keywords = life; man; power; world summary = prepossessions about the world of men and affairs, both those which which does not make the way look cold to any man whose eyes are fit There is no fixed time in a man''s life at which he comes to himself, It is enough to know that there are some laws which govern a man''s great end and motive of the play, spending themselves like good learn his use, and his real pleasure, too, in the world. man the wide meaning of his life, and makes of him a steady thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and It is for this reason that men are in love with power and greatness: man whom the world was afterward to know, not as a prince among his faculties are to be made to fit into the world''s affairs, and general world of men; has come to the full command and satisfying id = 13072 author = Yoritomo-Tashi title = Common Sense, How to Exercise It date = keywords = Lang; Shogun; Yoritomo; common; deduction; man; reason; reasoning; sense; thought; time summary = To those who possess common sense is given the faculty of placing times, facilities of realization that a judgment dictated by common sense "Common sense compels reason to admit principles whose justice it has "Common sense allies itself with reason, in order to make that selection classifies them, and leads us to common sense, by means of reasoning "There is, between common sense and impulse," says Yoritomo, "the Definite reasoning and impartial judgment, inspired by common sense, are cultivates common sense will never fail to reason in the following "For this reason this sentimental defect will find common sense armed way, and deduction, that essential principle of common sense, will be Common Sense is a science, whatever may be said; according to Yoritomo, always follows the appearance of common sense which, by giving to things "But people of common sense reproduce things just as sound judgment id = 17609 author = Young, John H. title = Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society date = keywords = CHAPTER; Mr.; Mrs.; President; White; card; child; dress; duty; evening; form; friend; gentleman; good; hair; hand; home; illustration; introduction; invitation; lady; letter; manner; party; person; present; rule; time; visit; wedding summary = The proper form of introduction is to present the gentleman to the lady, case good manners require the formal bow of recognition upon meeting, invariable rule of good society, that a gentleman cannot "cut" a lady Again, men remove the glove when they shake hands with a lady--a custom introduction in a room, a married lady generally offers her hand; a Ladies and gentlemen who meet in the drawing-room of a common friend are A lady receiving gives her hand to a stranger as to a friend, when she Any invitation given to a lady guest should also include the hostess, If a gentleman is seated by the side of a lady or elderly person, inquiries." Her lady friends then make personal visits, but gentlemen do "Ladies invited to funeral ceremonies should always wear a black dress, A gentleman should not invite ladies to ride on the water unless id = 17499 author = nan title = A Jolly by Josh date = keywords = man; mind; point; thing summary = things, although, when you come to your money in a few years, you will Now let us bear fully in mind that Life, Liberty, and Happiness are the Let us begin by postulating a great degree of happiness for friend Harris, of a man who has to deny himself things he thinks he wants. increase in income, and you will have a lot of expensive tastes for things future, but merely to illustrate a point of view,--a habit of mind. his purse, and a man''s desire to spend has no such limits. I know that you may think that you cannot come to Harris''s point of view, innumerable things which people want to have done. as, if you once have in mind that there is a correct way of doing things, life to do as much work as possible; that is, let the tool be used after id = 34863 author = nan title = Conversation: Its Faults and Its Graces date = keywords = Edition; English; God; case; conversation; good; introduction; man; person; pronounce; speak; thing; time; verb; word summary = express acts of a moral bearing, compared with our words, are rare and none of them converse, like man, in expressive words, however they may simple a thing as the expression of our thoughts by words,--if we do not would sound a little pedantic, in colloquial style, to use the word already understand the meaning of the word "case," as applied to nouns We all understand the meaning of the word "case," as it is applied to noun in the nominative case," we only mean a person or thing placed in the objective case, we only intend to express a person or thing standing a _vulgar_ error; to use the nominative instead of the objective is a _ng_, when terminating a word or syllable, as _we_ pronounce the same use of the word _quantity_, applying it to things of _number_, as "a The word should always be pronounced in _three_ id = 39648 author = nan title = Character and Conduct A Book of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages date = keywords = APRIL; AUGUST; Amiel; BROOKS; Bishop; Christ; Christian; DECEMBER; EMERSON; GEORGE; God; HENRY; JANUARY; JOHN; JULY; JUNE; Jesus; Journal; Life; Lord; MARCH; OCTOBER; PHILLIPS; man summary = life; that is God''s one great response to the unconscious need of things go, caring for no duty, serving no God, there is another self, self as they would deal with some one else they wished to bring to God. They set to work patiently, not exacting more than is practicable under "To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work the mere admiration of great men to try and live like them, we are then thou wilt feel the principle of God to turn thy mind to the Lord, man can really succeed in any walk of life without a good deal of what courtesy, and gratitude, resting upon faith in God and love towards man. Jesus, we love men enough; if our faith that the evil are still God''s There is scarcely such a thing as an isolated sin in a man''s life. id = 7019 author = nan title = For Auld Lang Syne: A Book of Friendship date = keywords = God; friend; friendship; good; love; man; true summary = sufficient for friendship, for friends do not live in harmony, merely, Every young man is the better for cherishing strong friendships with the the name of friendship, and we well know the difference between a friend It is a beautiful thing to feel that our friends are God''s gifts to us. friendship, that we expect from our friends only what is honorable, and Sweet words will multiply a man''s friends; and a fair-speaking tongue What room can there be for friendship, or who can be a friend to any one Our best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend of his through loving words--that is friendship. I could not live without the love of my friends. If you would know how rare a thing a true friend is, let me tell you through life the respect and love of friends.