Boswell's Life of Johnson, Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides And Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales 5; v. 1773-1774
Boswell's Life of Johnson, Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides And Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales 5; v. 1773-1774
Hill, George Birkbeck Norman, 1835-1903
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Walter Scott. T % and 276 Old manners of great Welsh families, [oetober a. and manners from my lady. That was the way in the great families in Wales ; at Lady Salisbury's ', Mrs. Thrale's grand- mother, and at Lady Philips's *. I distinguish the families by the ladies, as I speak of what was properly their province. There were always six young ladies at Sir John Philips's : when one was married, her place was filled up. There was a large §chool-room, where they learnt needle-work and other thin...gs/ I observed, that, at some courts in Germany, there were aca- demies for the pages, who are the sons of gentlemen, and receive their education without any expence to their parents. Dr. John- son said, that manners were best learned at those courts. * You are admitted with great facility to the prince's company, and yet must treat him with much respect At a great court, you are at such a distance that you get no good.' I said, ' Very true : a man sees the court of Versailles, as if he saw it on a theatre.' He said, * The best book that ever was written upon good breed- ing, // Corteggiano, by Castiglione ^, grew up at the little court of Urbino, and you should read it.' I am glad always to have his opinion of books.
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