Routledge's Manual of Etiquette eBook

George Routledge
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 212 pages of information about Routledge's Manual of Etiquette.

Routledge's Manual of Etiquette eBook

George Routledge
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 212 pages of information about Routledge's Manual of Etiquette.

    Queen and Country.

    Liberty, not licence.

    Confusion to all men who desert their party.

    Party ties before all other ties.

    The Queen:  may she outlive her Ministers, and may they live
    long.

    A lasting cement to all contending powers.

    The protectors of commerce and the promoters of charity.

    A revision of the code of criminal laws.

    The Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne.

* * * * *

GASTRONOMIC.

    Old England’s roast beef:  may it ever be the standing dish of
    Britons.

    Our constitutional friends—­the Baron and the Sir-loin.

    Roast beef:  may it always ennoble our veins and enrich our
    blood.

    The roast beef of old England.

    The Union dish:  English beef, Scotch kale, and Irish potatoes.

* * * * *

ENGLISH.

    England, home, and beauty.

    English oak and British valour.

    England for ever:  the land we live in.

    England, Scotland, and Ireland:  may their union remain
    undisturbed by plots or treachery to the end of time.

    England, the queen of the isles and the queen of the main.

    May old England’s sons, the Americans, never forget their
    mother.

* * * * *

IRISH.

    A high post to the enemies of Ould Ireland, Erin, the land
    of the brave and the bold.

    Ireland; sympathy for her wrongs, and a determination to
    redress them.

    The country that gave St. Patrick birth, the birthplace of
    wit, and hospitality’s home—­dear Ould Ireland.

    May Great Britain and Ireland be ever equally distinguished by
    their love of liberty and true patriotism.

    May the enemies of Great Britain and Ireland never meet a
    friend in either country.

    Justice to Ireland.

    Ireland, Scotland, and England:  may their union be happier
    than it has been.

* * * * *

SCOTCH.

    A health to the friends of Caledonia.

    Caledonia, the nursery of learning and the birthplace of
    heroes.

    Scotland and the productions of its soil.

    Scottish heroes, and may their fame live for ever.

    Scotland, the birthplace of valour, the country of worth.

    The Queen and the Scottish Union.

    The nobles of Caledonia and their ladies.

    To the memory of Scottish heroines.

    The Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock:  may they flourish by the
    common graft of union.

    To the memory of Scotland’s heroes.

    To the memory of those who have gloriously fallen in the noble
    struggle for independence.

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