Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (13)

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162 Should you overlive yourself re trench in time It is an act of virtue which will save you from an act of shame 163 There is something unmanly in hunting the hare Fox hunting is only destroying the destroyer 164 Do as you wish to be done by Follow this rule and you will need no force to keep you honest 165 A book worm is a critic without a soul 166 There would be no end of mourn ing for our departed friends if we were not sure of meeting them hereafter 167 As beauty will fade a handsome woman should lay in a stock of some thing to supply its place 168 If you do a dishonest act your self will be the first accuser C
169 If you are a young man dispute not with your elders in a large com pany 170 Read a practical sermon every Sunday evening to your family If it does not make your servants better it will at least learn them to be attentive 171 A valet to a courtier seldom gets any cast clothes His master generally turns his coat 172 By over indulging a child you will at last find him disposed to cry for the moon 173 A modern lady in winter lives all the morning in Lapland and spends her evenings on the banks of the Ganges Good news for the faculty 174 To be able to carve well is a useful and elegant accomplishment It is an artless recommendation to a man who is looking out for a wife

This is the thirteenth post in our new Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed. Much Enlarged, 1809) series.  For the first twelve posts:

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (2) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (3) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (4) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (5) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (6) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (7)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (8) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (9) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (10)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (11)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (12) 

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3 Responses to Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (13)

  1. Pam says:
    January 12, 2024 at 3:52 pm

    I love reading these: some sensible, some funny, and some downright bizarre. But what on earth does no. 173 mean?