# Blunders in behaviour corrected

Author: Observer of men and things

Genre: Etiquette

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77781

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Blunders+in+behaviour+corrected+Observer+of+men+and+things&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Books on Etiquette generally confine their attention to the usages of exclusively fashionable life, and are useful only in forming the habits of youth, or those who, suddenly elevated to a status higher than their natural reach, wish to adapt themselves to a kind of society to which they are more frequently allured by vanity than sense; for there is nothing more really hollow than the life termed _par-excellence_ FASHIONABLE. The middle ranks of life are acknowledged to be most tinctured with virtue, manliness, and religious feeling; for the vanities of wealth, and the debasements of poverty, are alike destructive of that uprightness of heart which civilization professes to insure. Not bu...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blunders-in-behaviour-corrected-77781/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blunders-in-behaviour-corrected-77781/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blunders-in-behaviour-corrected-77781/chapters/3/index.md)