This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...why servants are habitually wanting in a respectful conduct towards them, disobedient, unfaithful, and unmanageable. It may without doubt be said that in the generality of instances, where this is the case, the mistress has only herself to blame. She places herself in the position which renders her liable to such ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...why servants are habitually wanting in a respectful conduct towards them, disobedient, unfaithful, and unmanageable. It may without doubt be said that in the generality of instances, where this is the case, the mistress has only herself to blame. She places herself in the position which renders her liable to such behavior. A lady whose mind and heart has been cultivated so as to throw around her an atmosphere of intellectual and moral dignity, need never fear of having her rights invaded, or her self treated with disrespect by her servants. It is not a dignity which arises from a haughty or a distant behavior; a dignity which may be put on or off at pleasure, which ensures the respect of dependents or others. A dignity which has no foundation but the love of self manifested by such conduct, is altogether a misapplication of the term. True dignity is elevation of character, a sentiment arising from enlarged and liberal views of men and things, which cannot but appear in the manners of those whose hearts are actuated by them, and will have an effect on all within the sphere of their influence. A person possessed of such a character will manifest a uniformly kind, considerate, placable conduct, free from fretfulness, fault-finding, and tyrannical exaction, and all those qualities which degrade us even in our own eyes. It is far from good policy in the mistress of a family, especially where, in the main, a servant is inclined to do right, to take heed to every little lapse in duty, and animadvert upon it, as if perpetually on the watch for evil: on the contrary, she should show herself on the watch for good by noticing and commending, as often as can properly be done, passing over small faults, commending every special effort to please--and reproof will be much...
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