Difference between revisions of "Manners"

<p> The plural noun has various significations; as the general way of life, the morals or the habits of any person; also ceremonial behaviour or studied civility. Good manners, according to Swift, is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill-manners. Without some one of these defects no man will behave himself ill for want of experience; or of what, in the language of some, is called knowing the world. For the effect that [[Christianity]] has on the manners of men, see article CHRISTIANITY. </p>

<p> MAN'NERS, n. plu. Deportment carriage behavior conduct course of life in a moral sense. </p> <p> Evil communications corrupt good manners. &nbsp;1 Corinthians 15 </p> 1. Ceremonious behavior civility decent and respectful deportment. <p> Shall we, in our applications to the great God, take that to be religion, which the common reason of mankind will not allow to be manners? </p> 2. A bow or courtesy as, make your manners a popular use of the word.