When in Company, put not your Hands to any Part of the Body, not usualy Discovered.Every Action done in Company, ought to be with Some Sign of Respect, to those that are Present.The list of rules opens with the following:
As a handwriting exercise in around 1744, Washington merely copied word-for-word Francis Hawkins' translation which was published in England in about 1640. Most of the rules have been traced to a French etiquette manual written by Jesuits in 1595 entitled "Bienséance de la conversation entre les hommes". Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation is the name of a list best known as a school writing exercise of George Washington, who became the first president of the United States of America.
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