原文 (英语)

By George William Curtis “Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlor splendors of that festive place.” Goldsmith’s Deserted Village. “Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.” Burke’s First Letter on a Regicide Peace. “And I do seriously appr