Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (22)

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277 There is a near connection be tween the animal and vegetable creation They mutually support each other 278 Talking with a bosom friend is thinking aloud 279 Innocent follies should now and then be indulged in They refresh the mind as a summer shower refreshes the earth 280 A beau is like the cinnamon tree whose bark is of more value than the bole 281 A devout and regular clergy is one of the links that bind a State 282 If you do not command your passions your passions will command you 283 To be a good critic of modern writings you should have a perfect know ledge of the world 284 There is an uniformity in the life of every animal man excepted 285 Two horses scratching each other is an emblem of human life 286 Trade gives narrow notions but it gives wide possessions 287 There is no disgrace attached to poverty except when joined to vice and idleness 288 Accustom your children to think themselves constantly in the presence of the Deity 289 A mild tempered woman is the balsam that heals all human sorrows but a perverse woman is a perpetual blister 290 Learn to play well at chess back gammon and all games at cards It will not increase your fondness for play but will qualify you to be a country visiter 1

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

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (13)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (14) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (15)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (16)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (17)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (18)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (19)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (20)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (21)

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