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manners Noun, pl 1. a person's social conduct viewed in the light of whether it is regarded as polite or acceptable or not: his manners leave something to be desired, shockingly bad manners 2. a socially acceptable way of behaving: it's not manners to point
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Admitting that the author cannot himself be supposed to have witnessed those times, he must have lived, you observed, among persons who had acted and suffered in them; and even within these thirty years, such an infinite change has taken place in the manners of Scotland, that men look back upon the habits of society proper to their immediate ancestors, as we do on those of the reign of Queen Anne, or even the period of the Revolution. On each side there was much to attract, and their acquaintance soon promised as early an intimacy as good manners would warrant. What that mental attitude was capable of, in the way of an elegant, yet plain-spoken, and life-like delineation of men's moods and manners, as also in the way of determining those moods and manners themselves to all that was lively, unaffected, and harmonious, can be seen nowhere better than in Mr. |
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