Bashfulness Cured: Ease and Elegance of Manner Quickly Gained

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BASHFULNESS CURED:
Ease and Elegance of Manner
QUICKLY GAINED.
NEW YORK: SETH CONLY, PUBLISHER, No. 524 Sixth Avenue. 1872.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by SETH CONLY. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.


We do not see why Sidney should have termed diffidence “rustic shame.” Very many nice and proper persons who live in rural parts, and who are exceedingly bashful, are far from being shame-faced. “Excessive or extreme modesty,” Webster defines bashfulness, and this is the better definition, though not literally correct, as many who are rough, impudent and vulgar in the privacy of their own homes, are wretchedly bashful when in company of strangers, or those whom they consider their superiors.