Nor were his manners barbaric.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

He rightly maintained that Italian life and manners were susceptible of artistic treatment such as had not been given them before.

but his courtesy and good manners were often commented on.

He thought the manners of the British aristocracy were very democratic in comparison to the Japanese nobility, where "… everything is bound by tradition, imperfection, and artificiality.

His comedies described Roman scenes and manners ( the genre called comoediae togatae ) and the subjects were mostly taken from the life of the lower classes ( comoediae tabernariae ).

And yet the Maldivian language, the first Maldive scripts, the architecture, the ruling institutions, the customs and manners of the Maldivians originated at the time when the Maldives were a Buddhist Kingdom.

Infantry were recruited and trained in a wide variety of manners in different regions of Europe all through the Middle Ages, and probably always formed the most numerous part of a medieval field army.

" Harry Harrison summarised the period by saying " old barriers were coming down, pulp taboos were being forgotten, new themes and new manners of writing were being explored ".

He and other observers praised their simple manners and reported that they were incapable of lying.

He urged a would-be author “ to search for that simplicity of manners, and innocence of behavior, which has been often known among mere savages ; ere they were corrupted by our commerce ” ( Advice to an Author, Part III. iii ).

Education would begin at home, where children were taught the basic etiquette of proper manners and respecting others.

He first of the Cymry gave infants names ; for before, names were not given except to adults, and then from something characteristic in their bodies, minds, or manners.

The vowel is sounded in one of the continental manners, and the letter h is used to indicate that it is long, as though the origin of the spelling were German.

At the school the children and youth were transformed, outside, into facsimiles of white children of their day — haircuts, clothing, habits of eating, sleeping, toiletry, manners, industry, language, and so on.

In the later Middle Ages, wealthy merchants strove to adopt chivalric attitudes-the sons of the bourgeoisie were educated at aristocratic courts where they were trained in the manners of the knightly class.

And … they took with them those who had been separated and removed from the monasteries by reason of their lives and their strange manners and had for this reason been expelled, and all who were of heretical sects and were possessed with fanaticism and with hatred against me.

Since his manners and tastes were different than the other characters ', his creators hoped to address social issues by using his differences as a metaphor for racial and ethnic differences.

Glele resisted British diplomatic overtures, however, distrusting their manners and noting that they were much more activist in their opposition to the slave trade: though revolutionary France itself had outlawed slavery at the end of the 18th century it allowed the trade to continue elsewhere ; Britain outlawed slavery in the U. K. and in its overseas possessions in 1833, and had its navy make raids against slavers along the West African coast starting in 1840.

His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director ; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having " the Lubitsch touch.

It's pretty to look at and it contains a number of good performances, but there is something exhausting about its neat balancing of opposing manners and values ... One might be made to care about all this if the direction by the talented Australian film maker, Peter Weir ... were less perfunctory and if the screenplay ... did not seem so strangely familiar.

Griffin described Abdur Rahman as a man of middle height, with an exceedingly intelligent face and frank and courteous manners, shrewd and able in conversation on the business in hand.

" Of his face, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: " is as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and rustic, though courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior.

Count Grammont described Rupert as " brave and courageous even to rashness, but cross-grained and incorrigibly obstinate ... he was polite, even to excess, unseasonably ; but haughty, and even brutal, when he ought to have been gentle and courteous ... his manners were ungracious: he had a dry hard-favoured visage, and a stern look, even when he wished to please ; but, when he was out of humour, he was the true picture of reproof ".

" Windham wished they had been more courteous and added :" I hope that we shall be the people to keep up a little of the “ vielle cour ” in our manners, while we lose nothing of the solid advantages and privileges that the new system can promise ".

He was possessive in his manner and, though a slave, obviously was educated after a fashion and imitated the manners of his owners.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

Louis accordingly bolted the gates of Bourges against the new Bishop ; the Pope, recalling William X's similar attempts to exile Innocent's supporters from Poitou and replace them with priests loyal to himself, blamed Eleanor, saying that Louis was only a child and should be taught manners.

That a low-ranking priest was used as envoy was due to the duke's rude manners: the previous envoy, the bishop of Parma, had quit because the duke had wiped his buttocks in front of him: Saint-Simon in his Mémoires relates that Alberoni gained Vendôme's favor when he was received in the same way, but reacted adroitly by kissing the duke's buttocks and crying " O culo di angelo !".

He adopted the dress and manners of the country, was the first Christian missionary in Kiangsi, and built several churches in Fujian.

At the turn of the 20th century, man's increased reliance upon science was both opening new worlds and solidifying the manners by which he could understand them.

The author's paternal grandfather, Major Thomas Melvill, an honored participant in the Boston Tea Party, who refused to change the style of his clothing or manners to fit the times, was depicted in Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem " The Last Leaf ".

It is unclear that Jahangir even understood what a Sikh was, referring to Guru Arjun as a Hindu, who had " captured many of the simple-hearted of the Hindus, and even of the ignorant and foolish followers of Islam, by his ways and manners ... for three or four generations ( of spiritual successors ) they had kept this shop warm.

Palace after palace was discovered, with their decorations and their sculptured slabs, revealing the life and manners of this ancient people, their arts of war and peace, the forms of their religion, the style of their architecture, and the magnificence of their monarchs.

The non-fiction that transcends its original time tends to be viewed as either exceptionally well made or perfectly embodying the ideas, manners and attitudes of the time it was produced, even if it was not actually created as history.

The chronicler Thietmar eulogized her as follows: " Though was of the weak sex she possessed moderation, trustworthiness, and good manners.

Among Keynes's Bloomsbury friends, Lopokova was, at least initially, subjected to criticism for her manners, mode of conversation and supposedly humble social origins – the latter of the ostensible causes being particularly noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and Virginia Woolf.

Anne made a good impression in the Netherlands with her manners and studiousness, Margaret reported that she was well spoken and pleasant for her young age (" son josne eaige ").

Shaftesbury's denial of the innate depravity of man was taken up by contemporaries such as the popular Irish essayist Richard Steele ( 1672 – 1729 ), who attributed the corruption of contemporary manners to false education.

John Derbyshire, who says he has " complicated and sometimes self-contradictory feelings about Jews ", wrote on National Review Online regarding what he saw as the Jewish overreaction to the article that " It was a display of arrogance, cruelty, ignorance, stupidity, and sheer bad manners by rich and powerful people towards a harmless, helpless young writer, and the Jews who whipped up this preposterous storm should all be thoroughly ashamed of themselves ".

His death, while in the full vigor of his years, was deeply lamented by his people, notwithstanding the fact that he had made many considerable concessions to heathen manners and customs.

With her husband's family, she got on excellently: she became a mother-figure to her stepdaughter, Mary, who shared Margaret's interests in reading, riding, hunting, and falconry ; her mother-in-law, Isabella of Portugal, said of Margaret that she was " well pleased with the sight of this lovely lady, and pleased with her manners and virtues ".

This plot was abandoned almost immediately, before Chaplin's character was introduced, the documentary states, and Chaplin began again, with a story, still set in a cafe, about a man who has never been in a restaurant before displaying terrible table manners before meeting a lovely girl ( Purviance ) and shaping up.