Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 83: March 17, 1931 The origin of the word is hundreds of years old, and has been handed down to us as follows: In olden times only the king and his courtiers thought of learning and practicing what we call good manners, and the rest of the people, with the exception, perhaps, of the monks and clergy, were very ignorant and rough. Good manners are like flowers, and need a suitable soil in which to grow and thrive, and ignorance is not a suitable soil. Even the ...
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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 83: March 17, 1931 The origin of the word is hundreds of years old, and has been handed down to us as follows: In olden times only the king and his courtiers thought of learning and practicing what we call good manners, and the rest of the people, with the exception, perhaps, of the monks and clergy, were very ignorant and rough. Good manners are like flowers, and need a suitable soil in which to grow and thrive, and ignorance is not a suitable soil. Even the manners of the court were very crude and elementary; for example, the duty of courtesy to inferiors was hardly recognized. But such as they were; manners were to be found only at the court, and so were known as court manners, or courtesy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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