| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1834 - 558 pages
...greediness ; cut your bread with a knife ; lean not on the table ; neither find fault with what you eat. 53. Be not angry at table whatever happens, and if you...strangers, for good humor makes one dish of meat a feast. 54. Set not yourself at the upper end of the table ; but if it be your due, or that the master of the... | |
| Ada Van Stone Harris, Charles Benajah Gilbert - English language - 1907 - 396 pages
...victuals ; feed not with greediness ; lean not on the table ; neither find fault with what you eat. 3. Be not angry at table, whatever happens ; and if you...strangers, for good humor makes one dish of meat a feast. 4. Play not the peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well decked, if your shoes... | |
| 1837 - 594 pages
...greediness ; cut your bread with a knife ; lean not on the table ; neither find fault with what you eat. 53. Be not angry at table, whatever happens ; and if you...countenance, especially if there be strangers, for good-humor makes one dish of meat a feast. 54. Set not yourself at the upper end of the table ; but... | |
| James D. McCabe - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1884 - 948 pages
...nor repeat often the same matter of discourse. 49. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. 50. Be not angry at table, whatever happens ; and if you have reason to be no, show it not ; put on a cheerful countenance, especially if there be strangers, for good humor makes... | |
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