 | 1806 - 360 σελίδες
...cheerful, eafy, good-breeding of the French frequently cover ? My Lord Bacon fays, "That a pleafing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation." It...is certainly an agreeable forerunner of merit, and fmooths the way far it. A man of good-breeding fhould be acquainted with the forms and particular cuftoms... | |
 | Solomon Hodgson - 1806 - 362 σελίδες
...cheerful, eafy, good.breeding of the French frequently cover ? My Lord Bacon fays, " That a pleafing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation." It...is certainly an agreeable forerunner of merit, and fmooths the way for it. A man of good-breeding fhould be acquainted with the forms and particular cuftoms... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope - 1810 - 468 σελίδες
...not too mnch, neither negligent nor stiff? AH these things deserve a degree of care, a second-rate attention; they give an additional lustre to real...merit. My Lord Bacon says, that A pleasing figure is a perpetnal letter of recommendation. It is certaiuly an agreeahle foreruuner of merit, and smooths the... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 430 σελίδες
...!Vly Lord Baeon says, that a pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of reeom mendation. It is eertainly an agreeable forerunner of merit, and smooths the...Remember that I shall see you at Hanover next summer, and shpll expeet perfeetion whieh, if I do not meet with, or at least something very near it, you and I... | |
 | 1824 - 348 σελίδες
...outward modesty is extremely becoming. My Lord Bacon says, " that a pleasing figure is a perpetual fetter of recommendation." It is certainly an agreeable forerunner of merit, and smooths the way for it. 20. A man of good breeding should be acquainted with the forms and particular customs of courts. At... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1831 - 290 σελίδες
...gold. What a numher of sins does the cheerful, easy, good breeding of the French frequently cover! My Lord Bacon says, * That a pleasing figure is a...agreeable forerunner of Merit, and smooths the way for it . A man of good breeding should he acquainted with the forms and particular customs of courts. At Vienna,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1836 - 96 σελίδες
...gold. What a number of sins does the cheerful, easy, good breeding of the French frequently cover ! My Lord Bacon says, ' That a pleasing figure is a...agreeable forerunner of merit, and smooths the way for it. A man of good breeding should be acquainted with the forms and particular customs of courts. At Vienna... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton - 1861 - 268 σελίδες
...gold. What a number of sins does the cheerful, easy, good-breeding of the French frequently cover ! My Lord Bacon says, " that a pleasing figure is a...agreeable forerunner of merit, and smooths the way for it. A man of good-breeding should be acquainted with the forms and particular customs of courts. At Vienna,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1870 - 292 σελίδες
...the boy for some Arquebusade water. His lordship seut a rough copy of a polite answer to this note. to keep your teeth very clean, by washing them constantly...perpetual letter of recommendation. It is certainly ari agreeable forerunner of merit, and smooths the way for it. [My 30, 1747.] TRUTH. — Every man... | |
 | James Kernan - 1877 - 130 σελίδες
...not too much ? neither negligent nor stiff. All these things deserve a degree of care, a second-rate attention ; they give an additional lustre to real...agreeable forerunner of merit, and smooths the way for it. Truth. Every man seeks for truth ; but God only knows who has found it. It is, therefore, as unjust... | |
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I was of your age. Do you dress well, and not too well ? Do you consider your air and manner of presenting yourself, enough, and not too much ? neither negligent nor stiff. All these things deserve a degree of care, a second rate attention ; they give... 
