Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great (Volume 12: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists) - Softcover

Hubbard, Elbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1428051198 ISBN 13: 9781428051195

Publisher: IndyPublish, 2007

Synopsis

When you come into any fresh company, observe their humours. Suit your own carnage thereto, by which insinuation you will make their converse more free and open. Let your discours be more in querys and doublings than peremptory assertions or disputings, it being the designe of travelers to learne, not to teach. Besides, it will persuade your acquaintance that you have the greater esteem of them, and soe make them more ready to communicate what they know to you; whereas nothing sooner occasions disrespect and quarrels than peremptorinesse. You will find little or no advantage in seeming wiser, or much more ignorant than your company. Seldom discommend anything though never so bad, or doe it but moderately, lest you bee unexpectedly forced to an unhansom retraction. It is safer to commend any thing more than is due, than to discommend a thing soe much as it deserves; for commendations meet not soe often with oppositions, or, at least, are not usually soe ill resented by men that think otherwise, as discommendations; and you will insinuate into mens favour by nothing sooner than seeming to approve and commend what they like; but beware of doing it by a comparison.
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About this edition

• Publisher: IndyPublish
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1428051198
• ISBN 13: 9781428051195
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228