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The art of conversation, in three parts ... : interspers'd with many foreign proverbs, and pleasant stories, the whole fitted to divert, instruct, and entertain persons of every taste, quality, and circumstance in life
Uniform Title
Civil conversatione. English
Title
The art of conversation, in three parts ... : interspers'd with many foreign proverbs, and pleasant stories, the whole fitted to divert, instruct, and entertain persons of every taste, quality, and circumstance in life / written originally in Italian, by M. Stephen Guazzo ; translated formerly into French, and now into English.
Publication
London : J. Brett, 1738.
Physical Description
1 online resource (278 pages).
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Notes
Reference: 8406.gg.2.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2005. Digitized from a copy held by British Library and made available by Adam Matthew Digital.
Print book: British Library
In English; translated from the original Italian.
Description based on online resource; title from scanned document's title page (viewed April 12, 2023).
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Variant and related titles
Defining gender.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 07, 2023
Series
Defining gender
Contents
I. The use and benefit of conversation in general, with instructions to distinguish good company from bad. The noxious nature of solitude, with the evils and mischiefs that generally attend it
II. Rules of behaviour in company abroad, adapted to all ranks and degrees of person, also the conduct and carriage to be observed between princes and private persons, noblemen and gentlemen, scholars and mechanicks, natives and strangers, learned and illiterate, religious and secular, men and women
III. Directions for the right ordering of conversation at home, between husband and wife, father and son, mother and daughter, brother and brother, master and servant.
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