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In paring dern with a nners, leased to plint ourseles upon the point of galntry; a certain obsequiousness, or deferential respect, which we are supposed to pay to feles, as feles.
I shall beliee that this principle actuates our duct, when I fet, that in the eenth tury of the era frowhich we date our ciility, we are but just beginning to leae off the ery frequent practice of whipping feles in publi on with tharsest le offenders.
I shall beliee it to be iial, when I shut eyes to the fact, that in Engnd woill oasionally -- hanged.
I shall beliee in it, when actresses are no longer subject to be hissed off a stage by gentlen.
I shall beliee in it, when Dorint hands a fish-wife across the kennel; or assists the apple-won to pick up her wandering fruit, whie unlucky dray has just dissipated. I shall beliee in it, when the Dorints in huler life, who would be thought in their way notable adepts in this refi, shall act upon it in pces where they are not known, or think theeles not obsered -- when I shall see the traeller for so rich tradesn part with his adred boat, to spread it oer the defenceless shoulders of the poor won, who is passing to her parish on the roof of the sa stagach with hi drenched in the rain -- when I shall no longer see a won standing up i of a Loill she is sid faint with the eertion, with n about her, seated at their ease, and jeering at her distress; till ohat see to hae re nners or sce than the rest, signifitly decres quot;she should be wele to his seat, if she were a little younger and handsor.quot; Pce this dapper warehousen, or that ri;bdi藏书网;/bdider, in a circle of their own fele acquaintance, and you shall fess you hae not seen a politer-bred n in Lothbury.
Lastly, I shall begin to beliee that there is so such principle influeng our duct, whehan one-half of the drudgery anarse seritude of the world shall cease to be perford by won.
Until that day es, I shall neer beliee this boasted point to be any thihaional fi; a pageant got up between the sees, in a certain rank, and at a certain ti of life, in which both find their at equally.
I shall be een disposed to rank it ang the salutary fis of life, when in polite circles I shall see the sa attentions paid to age as to youth, to holy features as;tt;/tt to handso, tarse pleions as to clear -- to the won, as she is a won, not as she is a beauty, a fortune, or a title.
I shall beliee it to be sothihan a na, when a well-dressed gentlen in a well-dressed pany adert to the topic of fele old age without eg, and intending to ecite, a sneer: -- when the phrases quot;antiquated irginity,quot; and such a one has quot;oerstood her rket,quot; pronounced in good pany, shall raise iediate offen n, or won, that shall hear thespoken.
Joseph Paice, of Bread-street-hill, rt, and one of the Directors of the South-Sea pany -- the sa to whoEdwards, the Shakspeare entator, has addressed a fine so -- was the only pattern of sistent galntry I hae t with. He took under his sheer at an early age, aowed so pains upon . I owe to his precepts and eale whateer there is of the n of business (and that is not ch) in  osition. It was not his fau that I did not profit re. Though bred a Presbyterian, and brought up a rt, he was the fi gentlen of his ti. He had not one systeof attention to feles in the drawing-roo and another in the shop, or at the stall. I do not an that he de no distin. But he neer lost sight of se, or oerlooked it in the casu;big藏书网;/bigaies of a disadantageous situation. I hae seen histand bare-headed -- sle if you please -- to a poor serant girl, while she has been inquiring of hithe way to so street -- in such a posture of unforced ciility, as her to earrass her in the aeptanor hielf in the offer, of it. He was no dangler, in the oion of the word, after won: but he reerenced and upheld, in eery forin which it ca before hi wonhood. I hae seen hi-- nay, sle not --tenderly esc a rket-won, whohe had entered in a shower, eaing his urel oer her poor basket of fruit, that it ght receie no dage, with as ch carefulness as if she had been a tess. To the reerend forof Fele Eld he would yield the wall (though it were to an a beggarwon) with re y than we afford to show randa. He was the Preu Chealier of Age; the Sir Calidore, or Sir Tristan, to those who hae no Calidores or Tristans to defend the The roses, that had long faded theill blood for hiin those withered and yellow cheeks.
He was neer rried, hut in his youth he paid his addresses to the beautiful Susan Winstanley -- old Winstanleys daughter of -- who dying in the early days of theiurtship, fird in hithe resolution of perpetual bachelorship. It was during their shorurtship, he told , that he had been one day treating his stress with a profusion of ciil speech -- the on galntries -- to which kind of thing she had hitherto ed nnance -- but in this instah no effect. Huld not obtain froher a det aowledgnt iurn. She rather seed to resent his plints. Huld not set it down to caprice, for the dy had always shown herself aboe that littleness. Wheured on the following day finding her a little better huured, to epostute with her on her ess of yesterday, she fessed, with her usual frankness, that she had no sort of dislike to his attentions; that shuld een endure so high-flown plints; that a young ced in her situation had a right to epect all sort of ciil things said to her; that she hoped shuld digest a dose of adution, short of insiy, with as little injury to her hulity as st young won: but that -- a little before he had enced his plint -- she had oerheard hiby act, in rather rough nguage, rating a young won, who had nht ho his craats quite to the appoii, and she thought to herself, quot;As I aMiss Susan Winstanley, and a young dy -- a reputed beauty, and known to be a fortune, -- I hae choice of the fi speeches frothe uth of this ery filen who is bsp; -- but if I had been poor Mary Such-a-one (nang the lliner), -- and had failed ing ho the craats to the appointed hour -- though perhaps I had sat up half the night to forward the-- what sort of plints should I hae receied then? -- And ride ca to assistance; and I thought, that if it were only to do honour, a fele, like self, ght hae receied handsor usage: and I was deterned not to aept any fine speeches, to the prose of that se, the belonging to which was after all stro d title to thequot;
I think the dy dered both generosity, and a just way of thinking, in this rebuke which she gae her loer; and I hae sotis igihat the unon strain ourtesy, which through life reguted the as and behaiour of friend towards all of wonkind indisately, owed its happy in to this seasonable lesson frothe lips of his ress.
I wish the whole fele world would eain the sa notion of these things that Miss Winstanley showed. Then we should see sothing of the spirit of sistent galntry; and no longer withe anoly of the sa n -- a pattern of true politeo a wife -- old pt, or rudeness, to a sister -- the idoter of his fele stress -- the disparager and despiser of his no less fele aunt, or unfortunate -- still fele -- ideusin. Just so ch respect as a won derogates froher own se, in whateer dition pced -- her handid, or depe -- she deseres to hae dinished froherself on thatre; and probably will feel the dinution, when youth, ay, and adantages, not inseparable frose, shall lose of their attra. What a won should dend of a n iurtship, or after i;cite.;/citet, is first -- respect for her as she is a won; -- ao that -- to be respected by hiaboe all other won. But let her stand upon her fele character as upon a foundation; ahe attentions, io indiidual preference, be so ny pretty additants and ors -- as ny, and as fanciful, as you please -- to that in structure. Let her first lesson -- with sweet Susan Winstanley -- to reerence her se.
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