Emily Post's Etiquette

Emily Post

ISBN 10: 0061816841 / ISBN 13: 9780061816840

Published by Harpercollins (edition 14th/Index), 1984

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With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Seller Inventory # 0061816841-7-1-13_29

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emily Post's Etiquette
• Publisher: Harpercollins (edition 14th/Index)
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061816841
• ISBN 13: 9780061816840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 14th/Index.
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Many who scoff at a book of etiquette would be shocked to hear the least expression of levity touching the Ten Commandments. But the Commandments do not always prevent such virtuous scoffers from dealings with their neighbor of which no gentleman could be capable and retain his claim to the title. Though it may require ingenuity to reconcile their actions with the Decalogue—the ingenuity is always forthcoming. There is no intention in this remark to intimate that there is any higher rule of life than the Ten Commandments; only it is illuminating as showing the relationship between manners and morals, which is too often overlooked. The polished gentleman of sentimental fiction has so long served as the type of smooth and conscienceless depravity that urbanity of demeanor inspires distrust in ruder minds. On the other hand, the blunt, unpolished hero of melodrama and romantic fiction has lifted brusqueness and pushfulness to a pedestal not wholly merited. Consequently, the kinship between conduct that keeps us within the law and conduct that makes civilized life worthy to be called such, deserves to be noted with emphasis. The Chinese sage, Confucius, could not tolerate the suggestion that virtue is in itself enough without politeness, for he viewed them as inseparable and "saw courtesies as coming from the heart," maintaining that "when they are practised with all the heart, a moral elevation ensues."