Book-buying, 128
Books and the world, 253 Breeding, court, 114 good, 49, 59, 67, 87, 97, 114, 220, 225
Bruyère, 131
Caligula, 136
Canonical pillars, 127 Carelessness, 60 Carriage, proper, 121 Century ago, 218 Ceremony, bend to, 210 Change, small, 297 Chaperone, the, 262 Character, moral, 256 value of, 258 perception, 87
Chartres, anecdote of, 258 Chesterfield (Lord) account of, I
a censor-critic, 237 anxiety, 200
as a mentor, 153 his aim, 113, 219 his care, 103
his dislike of valets,
his letters, 74 his prophecy, 296 intention, 68 letter-writing, 36, 60
Contemptible, no ore, 122 Conversation, 126, 148 Court, at, 286, 293
Dancing and deportment,
171, 208 trifling, 61, 280 youth, 2
Débauche honnête, 183 Decency, true, 38 Delicacy, 66
Desert, reward, 121 Diet, 127
Dignity in pleasure, 266 of manners, 196 Dissimulation, 186, 258 Distinction, a nice, 169
Pictures, 279
Pin money, 128
Plaire, l'art de, 67
Please, how to, 183, 280
Pleasure, gentlemen's, 76, 177
life of real, 79 man of, 77
vulgar, 75
Pleasures, coarse, 80
earn, 195 rational, 168
Poets and orators, 253 Polish, 97
Politeness a necessity, 48 Politician, 98
Pope, power of, 118 Portrait, a, 164, 217, 273 Praise, desire of, 164 true, 56
Press, liberty of, 173 Pretender, the, 198 Pride and pedantry, 250 Princes, little, 178 Professor, Greek, 98 Proper expenses, 217 Propriety, local, 90
Questions, asking, 126
Study, a military, 219 in verse, 44 method of, 253 Style, 234
Summer, a wet, 298 Supper, good, 98 Swearing, 151
Talk, foolish, 70
small, 274
Temper, 185
Test, educational, 124
Things of consequence, 244 Time, 94
employment of, 75 value of, 93, 264 waste of, 94, 102 Travel, how to, 63
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