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The Footman’s Directory and Butler’s Remembrancer, 1823

And some examples of ca. 1820 plate warmers, which, when attractive enough, were usually placed before the fire in the dining room to warm the dishes between courses, and once warm, placed on the sideboard. This could be frustrating to guests, especially in the chillier months, because it would block the fireplace’s heat from reaching them. If there wasn’t a fireplace in the dining room, or the plate warmer wasn’t so nice to look at, it would be placed before the fire in the kitchen and then carried up, full of warm plates, when needed. This could be a dangerous job for a clumsy footman!

Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815 For example: if, instead of saying that “tastes are different, and that every man has his own peculiar one,” you...   High-res

Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815

For example: if, instead of saying that “tastes are different, and that every man has his own peculiar one,” you should let off a proverb, and say, that “what is one man’s meat is another man’s poison:” or else, “everyone as they like, as the good man said when he kissed his cow” everybody would be persuaded that you had never kept company with anybody above footmen and house-maids.