A proofread version of George Washington's Rules of Civility

1730's | George Washington

[Jim W N]

Watch out for conscience especially a guilty conscience. As believers in Jesus, if we understand grace and that we are righteous as a forever gift by the grace of his perfect sacrifice, our conscience at first may rebel. But if we understand that God the Father righteously calls us the righteousness of God in Christ because God fully judged and condemned all of our sins on the body of Jesus Christ and we got the exchange - his righteousness for our sin - our consciences will begin to accept no guilt or condemnation and begin to heal.

We want to be lead by His peace, not by conscience. But a conscience in tune with God’s spirit is truly a fired up conscience.

[Jim W N]

file:///C:/My%20Stuff/FR/Replace%20smart%20quotes%20with%20regular%20straight%20quotes.html

Copy and paste above on Google Chrome URL. Paste the original and then copy and paste it back on FR. I’ve tried it and it works.

[Albion Wilde]

Wonderful! Thank you for a glimpse into polite society of the 18th century. It was like a walk through Williamsburg or the colonial area of Philadelphia.

As for the "superiors" or "inferiors" part, the only places people observe these niceties these days are in the military, where it is spelled out, and in the upper reaches of corporations, where if you don't know which is which, you won't stay long.

The rest of society doesn't seem to think "superior" or "quality" people are morally acceptable; but "inferiors" are stylish and hypocritically patronized.

[ETL]

Isn’t there a standard url for that website?

[Albion Wilde]

Don't stop unannounced when others are walking and expect them to stop too.

Yearrgghhh. One of our jogging partners does that. So rude. Usually it is to answer her cell phone (also rude when jogging with two partners) but often it is just to hog attention to some trivial point in her cat stories.

[Albion Wilde]

Choler means visible anger.

[ETL]

Here's another apparent solution that some freeper posted a month or so ago. I have not personally tried it myself. Instead I manually replace the troublesome apostrophes and quotation marks from anything copied & pasted.

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Replace smart quotes with regular straight quotes:

When I post HTML to a blog, I find that smart quotes don't show up correctly, so this tool replaces smart quotes (and a few other entities) with regular quotes (or the regular entity). To use, paste the text containing the smart quotes in the top box, then hit convert and the converted text will appear in the lower box.

http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html

[mad_as_he$$]

Gibbs has about 30 rules.
God has 10.
GW over 100.

lol..

[Pontiac]

Isn’t that what I said.

[Jim W N]

Danged if I know. I just copied and pasted the URL showing. I don’t know why it doesn’t have the auto-link you usually get, but if I copy and paste the URL to a Google Chrome page, the page appears.

I only got so far with those rules. My gosh it wore me out. I think I love the idea behind good manners and loved how our ancestors and America’s Founders were so aware and careful about what really is loving treatment and respect for others. Rules don’t always work so well for me, but I know God’s spirit is teaching me all the time. :)

[Jim W N]

Thanks.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

Bfl

[Yaelle]

Was it 19, where you are not to read a letter or paper when in company of another, but if it is urgent, you are to excuse yourself???? We need that one today with cell phones. It should be inexcusable other than for emergencies to text or read texts when sitting at a table with someone. When waiting alone, nothing wrong with it. And at the very least, it should be something to apologize for, as in “Oh no, the babysitter has to leave early. I’m afraid I need to call so-and-so to watch my kids, I’m so sorry.”

[Albion Wilde]

Forgive me. One of my hobbies is translation of poetry. So I would have avoided the word “color” as being too close in spelling so as to obscure the subtle difference in meaning. Cholera was a deadly infectious disease of the time that many may have heard about. “Color” is a little bit excited. “Choler” is sick with rage.

[Mycroft Holmes]

file:///C:/My%20Stuff/FR/Replace%20smart%20quotes%20with%20regular%20straight%20quotes.html This takes me right to it (on Google Chrome).

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This takes you to a file on your C: drive in the directory

My Stuff/FR/Replace smart quotes with regular straight quotes.html

which is a local file on your system.

J. R. "Bob" Dobbs receding into infinity...

<img src="http://mumble.com/image.jpg"> substitute the actual source of the image for http://mumble.com/image.jpg This image must be out on a server on the web someplace, not on your machine. This is why people have flickr and picassa accounts. You can easily find out the URL of an existing picture on the web by right-mousing over it and selecting Open Image In New Tab. This will open a tab on your browser containing only that image. The URL of that tab is the one to use as your src="" value.

Some of the photo storage sites on the web (flickr) try to drive web traffic to their site to harvest advertising by providing a convenient pointer to their site that isn't a URL to a .jpg To get the proper URL try right mousing over the image and select Open Image in New Tab. This should get you the naked image itself, without all of the surrounding advertising. This is the URL you want to use.

Access Denied! - No Hotlinking - Occasionally you will see an image that looks good on the site of origin but won't show up if you use it in a posting. Many sites block what they term as "hot-linking" thinking that people who link to their images from pages that are not theirs are stealing their hard paid for bandwidth. They have a point. Either use another image or host it on your own site to fix this problem.

Often the poster will see the image that hot-linking is not allowed for while other users are whining about no image present and red X's. This is because the poster's browser has cached the image and doesn't have to go to the blocked site to get it. A refresh of the page should show what is what.

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[afraidfortherepublic]

Revisiting George Washington’s Rules of Civility. If only more parents followed these Rules with their children today!

FReep mail me if you want on, or off, this Revolutionary War/ Founding Father/ George Washington ping list.

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[matginzac]

Great Rules!
I taught 3rd graders for a few years and had them copy the Rules in their copy books for handwriting exercises...of course we discussed them before copying...they thought it was neat to copy Geo Washington stuff...

[goodnesswins]

They copied ALL those rules?

[Bigg Red]

I am thinking that the “cholar” here is more along the lines of the obsolete word “choler”, which, I think would have been in use during this time. This word referred to bile, but also was used as a show of anger, in the same way we might say, “Don’t get your dander up!” they might say, “Don’t let your choler show!”

But this means the same as you interpreted, and I am betting there are FReepers reading my comments who are thinking, “Who cares?!” But they are not word nerds like me and like you probably are.