Civility
| 1. | Freedom from barbarity; the state of being civilised.
The English were at first as stout and warlike a people as ever the Iris;
and yet are now brought unto that civility, that no nation in the world
excelleth them in all goodly conversation, and all the studies of
knowledge and humanity. Spenser's State of Ireland.
Davies on Ireland.
Denham's Poem. |
| 2. | Shakespeare, As you like it. He, by his great civility and affability, wrought very much upon the people. Clarendon, b. viii. I should be kept from a publication; did not what your civility calls a request, your greatness, command. South. We, in point of civility, yield to others in our own houses. Swift.
Dryden Cym. and Iphig. |
Waller. | |
Denham. |
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Publication information:
Book title: Into Slavery:Racial Decisions in the Virginia Colony.
Contributors: Joseph Boskin - Author.
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott.
Place of publication: Philadelphia.
Publication year: 1976.
Page number: 61.
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