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A conversation can become an ordeal when one speaker takes over, flatters too eagerly or finds fault with everyone else. John Bate examines these habits in a collection of moral essays and character sketches about everyday speech. His cast includes the monopolist, the whisperer, the pedant and the grumbler, each presented as a recognizable social type. Christian teaching shapes his argument that words carry responsibilities toward other people.
Humour gives these lessons a sharper edge. In the section on grumbling, a habitual complainer longs for favours and resents a neighbour's advancement, while Mr. Content offers a calmer judgment. Bate especially hopes to reach young people before their speaking habits become fixed. Readers interested in social manners, religious ethics or comic portraits of difficult company will find a guide to the small verbal habits that can trouble a household or community.
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- Author
- John Bate
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 203
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Christianity
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