[wplug] Rules of Civility -- WAS: Thoughts & Considerations for email server

[terry mcintyre]

>From what I have discovered via Google, G.W. can be credited with copying these maxims, not with any authorship. He might have translated them from the French, but that is not evident. On the other hand, he seems to have been an effective marketer of those ideas.
 
Terry McIntyre <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com>
They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters. -- Daniel Webster

----- Original Message ----
From: Kevin Squire <gentgeen at linuxmail.org>
To: WPLUG <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 11:51:55 AM
Subject: [wplug] Rules of Civility -- WAS: Thoughts & Considerations for email server


On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:11:04 -0400
"Michael Semcheski" <mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/18/07, Kevin Squire <gentgeen at linuxmail.org> wrote:
> > #############################################################
> >  Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem
> >  your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone then in bad
> >  company.        - George Washington, Rules of Civility
> 
> FYI, George Washington didn't write the Rules of Civility.  He studied
> them.
> 
> To my understanding, at least.
> 
> Mike
> 


I took this one directly from "The Pocket Book of Quotations"
ISBN: 0-671-60386-8 

You post got me thinking, so I googled....

On http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/manners/rules2.cfm it starts of
by saying "George Washington, sometime before the age of 16, transcribed
Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation." which
tells me he was not the author... but then at the bottom of the page I
see "*Washington, George. Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in
Company and Conversation: a Book of Etiquette. Williamsburg, VA: Beaver
Press, 1971. "  which would tell me he did... 

I also found on http://www.foundationsmag.com/civility.html that "...
Washington had copied out by hand, 110 Rules of Civility & Decent
Behavior in Company and Conversation. They are based on a set of rules
composed by French Jesuits in 1595." so if they were "based on" who is
the author?  "based on" tell me (at least) that G.W. authored, but with
great reference to the original.

So it seems that the Rules of Civility are commonly credited to G.W. but
truly are 16th century Jesuits ??

To those of you who paid better attention in English class then I did --
I would be more then happy to correct - if only I knew what the above
findings mean and how to put it all together correctly  :-)




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 Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem    
 your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone then in bad 
 company.        - George Washington, Rules of Civility
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