Presents 110 quotations about civility and behavior that George Washington copied when he was fourteen years old and attempted to live by.

Here are the 110 rules which George Washington copied into his early notebooks and lived by all his life--from such rules as "Spit not in the fire" to "Sleep not when others ...

As a young man, Washington copied down 110 rules for civil behavior he admired from a Jesuit textbook. These are those rules, presented and interpreted by Brookhiser for the ...

"How to sit, stand, smile, & be cool!"--Cover.

George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to Their Sources and Restored (1890)-Moncure Daniel Conway

The editor's theory is that the Rules were derived from the oral instruction of Rev. James Marye, supposed to have been Washington's teacher in Fredericksburg, Va. The original ...

"Labour to keep alive in your breast that little celestial fire called conscience." "Run not in the streets. . .nor with mouth open; go not upon the toes nor in a dancing ...