10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEEMLINESS»
Discover the use of
seemliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
seemliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
To make the estimable nature of virtue beloved, by constant cultivation of our
manners, is a duty, and on this rests decorum, the outward appearance of
propriety in our actions, or the seemliness of our behaviour towards others. This
is virtue ...
Immanuel Kant, Peter Heath, J. B. Schneewind, 1997
Cicero says that 'there is a twofold description of seemliness; there is a certain
general seemliness found in all virtue (96) and another subordinate to it, which
relates to the individual parts or kinds of virtue (cf. 94, 98). The former and
superior ...
P. A. Brunt, Miriam Griffin, Michael Crawford, 2013
93 The group of virtues 94-8 General and specific seemliness 99 Shame and
justice 100-21 The four roles: the nature of man (100-6); personal traits (107-14);
fortune and circumstance (115); choosing a career 122-5 Seemliness and social
...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, M. T. Griffin, E. M. Atkins, 1991
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Against Julian (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 35)
You continue: 'The modest parts, he says, receive a covering of more abundant
seemliness.' You thought, certainly, that your whole case should be bound to the
words you read as 'the modest parts.' But, if you had read: 'our unseemly parts,' ...
5
Passionate Deliberation: Emotion, Temperance, and the Care ...
... the main theme of the treatise.94 Ambrose writes at the beginning of Book One
his own struggles to fill the role of Bishop. For his clergy, duty and seemliness in
all areas of life may have seemed "high and somewhat severe" requirements.
6
De Officiis: Introduction, text, and translation
There is what we might call seemliness of a general kind: it pervades all that is
honourable, and is as it were to be seen in the body as a whole. There is also
seemliness of a particular kind: it shines in each individual part of the whole.
Ambrosius (Mediolanensis.), Ivor J. Davidson, 2001
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English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
Seemliness is very similar in sense to decency, but is confined to such things as
immediately strike the observer. Fitness and suitableness relate to the disposition
, arrangement, and order of either being or doing, according to persons, things, ...
8
Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
Good manners Etiquette of salutation, etc. — Literature of manners and etiquette,
— Honor, seemliness, common sense, conscience. — Seemliness. — Cases of
unseemliness. — Greek tragedies and notions of seemliness. — Greek conduct.
William Graham Sumner, 2007
For what is virtue, but to avoid anything shameful as though it were death? And
what is the opposite of virtue, except that which brings barrenness and death? If,
then, the essence of virtue is strong and vigorous, seemliness will also quickly ...
The character of good sense is no other, finally, than that which is harmonious
and suitable,2 and its perceptible mark, seemliness,3 that is to say the famous
quod decet4 of the ancients: so seemliness is, in regard to what is harmonious
and ...
George Meredith, Richard C. Stevenson, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEEMLINESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
seemliness is used in the context of the following news items.
Syndication; CEO INITIATES STOCK BUY BACK & RESCISSION …
... the potential impact of ARCHER and NINJATRADER using an effortless and seemliness "point and click" delivery and distribution system to generate sales. «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
Clinton gives speeches, collects big checks
Again with the speeches. The gross excessiveness of it all, vacuuming up six-figure checks well past the point of rational need or political seemliness. «The Daily Star-Journal, Jun 15»
Hillary Clinton's unseemly speechifying
Again with the speeches. The gross excessiveness of it all, vacuuming up six-figure checks well past the point of rational need or political seemliness. «Washington Post, May 15»
Can I Go to a Bar by Myself Without Looking Like a Creep?
The first concerns the seemliness of patronizing a bar by oneself: Is it OK to drink alone? William Shrike, the newspaper editor in Miss Lonelyhearts, believes, ... «Slate Magazine, Jan 15»
The Moneyed Are Rarely Modest
David Brooks is getting some ribbing for suggesting in a recent New York Times column that the wealthy should "follow a code of seemliness" and not live the ... «Truth-Out, Oct 14»
A Tale of One City by David Brooks
... send them on ski vacations: “Wealthy people have an obligation to try to follow a code of seemliness,” he advises, adding: “Strike a blow for social cohesion. «The Nation., Oct 14»
If you got it, stow it
Wealthy people have an obligation to try to follow a code of seemliness. No luxury cars for college-age kids. No private jet/ski weekends. Live a lifestyle that is ... «The Economist, Sep 14»
NYT's David Brooks, WaPo's Michael Gerson to Speak at Funding …
... recent column in which Brooks chided America's "Bonfire of The Vanities" crowd with, "Wealthy people have an obligation to try to follow a code of seemliness. «Huffington Post, Sep 14»
Unseemly Notes
Something I didn't know: David Brooks's column that, among other things, lamented the failure of the wealthy to follow a “code of seemliness” was actually part of ... «New York Times, Sep 14»
Having It and Flaunting It
David Brooks is getting some ribbing for suggesting that the wealthy should “follow a code of seemliness”, not living the lavish lifestyles they can afford. I don't ... «New York Times, Sep 14»
