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The art of conversation. In three parts. 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 Persons; 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. 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.

Title
The art of conversation. [electronic resource] : In three parts. 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 Persons; 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. 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.
Author
Guazzo, Stefano, 1530-1593
Publication
London : printed for J. Brett, at the Golden Ball, opposite St. Clement's Church in the Strand, MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]

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Description
278,[2]p.; 4⁰.
Uniform Title
Civil conversatione. English
Alternative Title
Civil conversatione.
Subject
  • Etiquette, Medieval
  • Conversation > Early works to 1800
Note
  • With a final leaf of errata.
  • Vertical chain lines.
  • Text is continuous despite pagination.
  • Reproduction of original from British Library.
Indexed In (note)
  • English Short Title Catalog
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
  • 642274377
  • ECCO1-T109491
Author
Guazzo, Stefano, 1530-1593.
Title
The art of conversation. [electronic resource] : In three parts. 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 Persons; 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. 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.
Imprint
London : printed for J. Brett, at the Golden Ball, opposite St. Clement's Church in the Strand, MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, T109491.
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Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Place of Publication
Great Britain England London.
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