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Article REMARKS ON GENERAL INVITATIONS. ← Page 2 of 2 Article AMERICAN ANECDOTES. Page 1 of 4 →
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Remarks On General Invitations.
house is gone a little way out of town , and taken the keys"bf the cellar with her , and the master is to take a family-dinner with a friend . After a variety of rebuffs and disappointments , I am come to this opinion , that general invitations are words of course , and rarely meanany thing . If it be said , and 1 will allow it , that they are not always so , yet how are we to know when this is the case ? My rule , therefore , of them forif is reallwantedit
is never to accept ; , my company y , Will be asked more particularly ; if not , and repeated experience convinces me of it , I account all such invitations to be only ' a civil way of speaking . ' Another kind of invitation I am nearly equally averse to accept—> that which depends on accident . You step to a friend ' s house on businessnear his dinner hour : he thinks that politeness
, obliges him to ask you , nay , perhaps he thinks that you come to be asked . The safest rule , in these cases , is to refuse the invitation , unless which canno > afways happen , the inviter be one with whom we live in habits of the closest friendship and intimacy . Of such friends , few men can boast of a very large list .
It is confessedly a great meanness to put one ' s self in the way of a man , on purpose to be asked to dine ; but it is , in my humble opinion , a Greater meanness to ask a man who is not welcome . Distress may prompt the former , but for the latter I know no excuse , unless a compliance with the hypocrisy of modern politeness be justifiable . Menof delicacy are the best of men , and cannot easily submit ' to be obliged by such a trifling favour as an invitation to dinner , and are conseunderstand the
quently very much at a loss how to common cant of invitations . He that complies with every verbal and general invitation , cannot fail to be often a very unwelcome guest ; while he whoaccepts only that kind of invitation which cannot be misunderstood ^ a formal and written invitation , will rarely fail of being acceptable . — Politeness , or what is called politeness , may induce a man to invite any one to dinner whom he may meet with , in hopes of a refusal ; but the man who sends for his friend generally wants to see him . Jv
American Anecdotes.
AMERICAN ANECDOTES .
GENERAL FORBES , who took possessioa of Fort Du Quesne , ' upon the French abandoning it the war before last , being informed that a large body of the enemy were preparing to attack him , ordered a Lieutenant and forty men to reconnoitre their number and situation , they being about three days march from the fort . The officer and his detachment proceeded with great ehearfulriess and
alacrity , without the least appearance of an enemy , until about six o ' clock in the morning of the third day ' s march , when they were suddenlyfired upon from the woods by a body of Indians , who killed nine of them upon the spot ; upon which the officer , well knowing that'he could not attack the enemy in their then situation but af the greatest disadvantage , very judiciously drew off the remains of his little detachment to a neighbouring plain , and there , formed , them-in order of I i 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Remarks On General Invitations.
house is gone a little way out of town , and taken the keys"bf the cellar with her , and the master is to take a family-dinner with a friend . After a variety of rebuffs and disappointments , I am come to this opinion , that general invitations are words of course , and rarely meanany thing . If it be said , and 1 will allow it , that they are not always so , yet how are we to know when this is the case ? My rule , therefore , of them forif is reallwantedit
is never to accept ; , my company y , Will be asked more particularly ; if not , and repeated experience convinces me of it , I account all such invitations to be only ' a civil way of speaking . ' Another kind of invitation I am nearly equally averse to accept—> that which depends on accident . You step to a friend ' s house on businessnear his dinner hour : he thinks that politeness
, obliges him to ask you , nay , perhaps he thinks that you come to be asked . The safest rule , in these cases , is to refuse the invitation , unless which canno > afways happen , the inviter be one with whom we live in habits of the closest friendship and intimacy . Of such friends , few men can boast of a very large list .
It is confessedly a great meanness to put one ' s self in the way of a man , on purpose to be asked to dine ; but it is , in my humble opinion , a Greater meanness to ask a man who is not welcome . Distress may prompt the former , but for the latter I know no excuse , unless a compliance with the hypocrisy of modern politeness be justifiable . Menof delicacy are the best of men , and cannot easily submit ' to be obliged by such a trifling favour as an invitation to dinner , and are conseunderstand the
quently very much at a loss how to common cant of invitations . He that complies with every verbal and general invitation , cannot fail to be often a very unwelcome guest ; while he whoaccepts only that kind of invitation which cannot be misunderstood ^ a formal and written invitation , will rarely fail of being acceptable . — Politeness , or what is called politeness , may induce a man to invite any one to dinner whom he may meet with , in hopes of a refusal ; but the man who sends for his friend generally wants to see him . Jv
American Anecdotes.
AMERICAN ANECDOTES .
GENERAL FORBES , who took possessioa of Fort Du Quesne , ' upon the French abandoning it the war before last , being informed that a large body of the enemy were preparing to attack him , ordered a Lieutenant and forty men to reconnoitre their number and situation , they being about three days march from the fort . The officer and his detachment proceeded with great ehearfulriess and
alacrity , without the least appearance of an enemy , until about six o ' clock in the morning of the third day ' s march , when they were suddenlyfired upon from the woods by a body of Indians , who killed nine of them upon the spot ; upon which the officer , well knowing that'he could not attack the enemy in their then situation but af the greatest disadvantage , very judiciously drew off the remains of his little detachment to a neighbouring plain , and there , formed , them-in order of I i 2