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It means, in other words, that by constant exercise in correct manners, one brings all the parts and faculties of his body into perfect order and into such harmony with itself and its environment as to express the mastery of spirit over the flesh. What a new and deep significance the French word biensèance comes thus to contain!
Your observation is, however, apparently just that, in not consulting you before they were signed, we have been guilty of neglecting a point of bienséance.
I have lately met with a little French book, entitled Manuel Complet de la Bonne Compagnie, ou Guide de la Politesse, et de la Bienséance, which, amid much that is, according to our ideas, unnecessary and almost ridiculous, contains a great deal we should do well to practise. It begins with treating of the proper behaviour to be observed in churches of all denominations and forms of faith.
Moore pours out several pages of octosyllabic disgust at the sensuality of the dead man of genius. There was no horror for Byron. Toward him all was suavity and decorous bienseance. That lively sense of benefits to be received made the Irish Anacreon wink with both his little eyes. In the judgment of a liberal like Mr. Moore, were not the errors of a lord excusable?
It is not my business to censure the conduct of my superiors; but I always speak my mind in a cavalier manner, and as, according to the Spectator, talking to a friend is no more than thinking aloud, entre nous, his Corsican majesty has been scurvily treated by a certain administration. Be that as it will, he is a personage of a very portly appearance, and is quite master of the bienseance.
In short, to cut off all cavilling against the ancients, and particularly those of the warmer climates, who had most heat and life in their imaginations, we are to consider that the rule of observing what the French call the bienseance in an allusion has been found out of later years, and in the colder regions of the world, where we could make some amends for our want of force and spirit by a scrupulous nicety and exactness in our compositions.
We have already seen, from Backer's Jesuit bibliography, that Father Léonard Périn added a chapter on "bienséance" at table; but after this there is another chapter a wonderful chapter and it would be interesting to learn whether we owe this also to Périn.
"I see," said he, perceiving that I could not immediately reconcile myself to the bienseance of so singular a welcome "I see you are astonished at my apartment at my statues my pictures my originality of conception in architecture and upholstery! absolutely drunk, eh, with my magnificence? You appeared so utterly astonished.
Lincoln is not handsome nor elegant, we learn from certain English tourists who would consider similar revelations in regard to Queen Victoria as thoroughly American in their want of bienséance.
People of more age and experience expect, and are entitled to, that degree of deference. There is a 'bienseance' also with regard to people of the lowest degree: a gentleman observes it with his footman even with the beggar in the street.
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