George Washington's Rules of Civility by George Washington
110 Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. George Washington's Rules of Civility: Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway and George Washington - 1890. Among the manuscript books of George Washington, preserved in the State Archives at Washington City, the earliest bears the date, written in it by himself, 1745. Washington was born February 11, 1731 O.S., so that while writing in this book he was either near the close of his fourteenth, or in his fifteenth, year. It is entitled Forms of Writing, has thirty folio pages, and the contents, all in his boyish handwriting, are sufficiently curious. Amid copied forms of exchange, bonds, receipts, sales, and similar exercises, occasionally, in ornate penmanship, there are poetic selections, among them lines of a religious tone on True Happiness. But the great interest of the book centres in the pages headed: Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation. The book had been gnawed at the bottom by Mount Vernon mice, before it reached the State Archives, and nine of the 110 Rules have thus suffered, the sense of several being lost.
Washington, George: - George Washington was born in Virginia in 1732. As a young man, he learned the morals, manners, and knowledge necessary to become a Virginia gentleman. He was particularly interested in the military arts and western expansion. At the age of 16, he helped survey Shenandoah lands. At the age of 22, he was commissioned a lieutenant colonel and fought in the first battles of what became the French and Indian War. Unanimously elected as the first President of the United States, Washington served two terms before retiring to Mount Vernon. He passed away on December 14, 1799.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781627556316 |
| ISBN 10 | 1627556311 |
| Title | George Washington's Rules of Civility |
| Author | George Washington |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gray Rabbit Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-08-14 |
| Number of pages | 84 |
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