George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour, Books of American Wi

🧿Publication Year 1989 🧿Format Hardcover 🧿Language English 🧿Book Title George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation 🧿Book Series Little Books of Wisdom 🧿Narrative Type Nonfiction 🧿Author George Washington 🧿Publisher Applewood Books 🧿Genre History, Politics & Society, Philosophy 🧿Topic Etiquette, Social Situations 🧿Publisher Applewood Books 🧿Book Title George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation 🧿Narrative Type Nonfiction 🧿Author George Washington 🧿Book Series Little Books of Wisdom 🧿Format Hardcover 🧿Language English 🧿Topic Etiquette, Social Situations 🧿Publication Year 1989 🧿Genre History, Politics & Society, Philosophy Copied out by hand as a young man aspiring to the status of Gentleman, George Washington's 110 rules were based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595. The first English edition of these rules was available in Francis Hawkins' Youths Behavior, or Decency in Conversation Amongst Men, which appeared in 1640, and it is from this work that Washington seems to have copied. The rules as Washington wrote them out are a simplified version of this text. However much he may have simplified them, these precepts had a strong influence on Washington, who aimed to always live by them.