And that sort, which professes to form acquaintances only for the sake of virtue, and demands a reward in the shape of money, may be fairly called by another name?
The most common situations in which people might brag are in forming new acquaintances, especially during job interviews or first dates.
Washington accepted, writing to Braddock's principal aide, Captain Robert Orme, "I wish for nothing more earnestly, than to attain a small degree of knowledge in the Military Art", and that the position would provide him "a good opportunity... of forming an acquaintance which may be serviceable hereafter, if I can find it worth while pushing my Fortune in the Military way".
But he becomes seized with a passion to form the acquaintance of philosophers and dilettanti.
I found many who had been acquainted with my parents in the days of their youth, and who were exceedingly happy to form an acquaintance with me, and to them I was permitted to preach the fullness of the everlasting Gospel and also to a step-grandmother, and one uncle and aunt, all of whom I had never before seen.
Meeting more, different, new people, forming better ties to old acquaintances, getting involved in other cliques.
And over time, they might form a nodding acquaintance.
It was already to some degree familiar to them from the work of the western Greeks in Italy and Sicily, and the Romans formed a closer acquaintance with it in the court of Alexandria and from the profits of their diplomacy and warfare.
