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The Common Reader; Consisting of a Variety of Pieces, Original and Selected, Intended for the Use of Schools, and Particularly Calculated for the ... First & Second Classes in the Art of Reading - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819. Excerpt: ... We cannot be pleased with a man who is always commending and speaking well of himself, and who is the hero of his own story.... 8. But a man who endeavours to conceal his ownmerit; who sets that of other people in its true light; who speaks but little of himself, and with modesty; such a man makes a favourable impression upon the understanding of his hearers, and acquires their love and esteem. 9. Take this for granted, as a never failing rule; that you must never seem to affect the character in which you have a mind to shine. If you desire or expect praise, you must seek it by modesty in your behaviour and conversation. By this, I do not mean timidity and'awkward bashfulness. 10. On the contrary, b« inwardly firm and steady; know your own value, whatever it may be, and act upon that principle. But whatever vou think your excellences may be, do not affectedly display them in company; nor labour, as many people do, to give that turn to the conversation which may supply you with an opportunity of exhibiting them. If they are real, they will infallibly be discovered without your pointing them out yourself, and with much more advantage. CHAPTER XXXIII. DISCRETION. 1. Indiscretions of speech are the ordinary causes of private dissensions. Secrets, in which you have no personal interest, endeavour to forget as soon as they are communicated to you. Do not yourself impart toany one such of your own as might, if disclosed, prove an injury to your reputation., 2. In confiding matters of importance to persons of whose discretion you are not fully assured, you will be compelled to exercise perpetual caution towards them, and to be ever on your guard, lest by any means you should give them offence; so that in all your future intercourse with these persons, you wi...
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