Letters, sentences, and maxims by lord Chesterfield [selected from Letters to his son, by J.H. Friswell].S. Low, Marston, 1870 - 224 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xv
... easy subjugation of the order of thought to the will only belongs to great or very good intellects . M. Royer- Collard used to say that " what was most wanting in our day was respect in the moral disposition , and attention in the ...
... easy subjugation of the order of thought to the will only belongs to great or very good intellects . M. Royer- Collard used to say that " what was most wanting in our day was respect in the moral disposition , and attention in the ...
Σελίδα xvi
... easy and dilatory tem- perament , from which it would , at any expense , form a masterpiece accomplished , amiable and original , and with which it only succeeded in making a sort of estimable copy . What sustains and almost touches the ...
... easy and dilatory tem- perament , from which it would , at any expense , form a masterpiece accomplished , amiable and original , and with which it only succeeded in making a sort of estimable copy . What sustains and almost touches the ...
Σελίδα xxiii
... easily he mixes the useful and the agreeable . He is perpetually demanding from the intellect something resolute and subtle , sweetness in the manner , energy at bottom . Lord Chesterfield thoroughly appreciated the seri- ous state of ...
... easily he mixes the useful and the agreeable . He is perpetually demanding from the intellect something resolute and subtle , sweetness in the manner , energy at bottom . Lord Chesterfield thoroughly appreciated the seri- ous state of ...
Σελίδα 3
... easily in obtaining what he wishes , than a man who does not explain himself clearly ; speaks his language ill ; or makes use of low and vulgar expressions ; and who has neither grace nor elegance in any thing that he says . Now it is ...
... easily in obtaining what he wishes , than a man who does not explain himself clearly ; speaks his language ill ; or makes use of low and vulgar expressions ; and who has neither grace nor elegance in any thing that he says . Now it is ...
Σελίδα 4
... easily feel that to please people is a great step towards persuading them . You must then , consequently be sensible how advantageous it is for a man , who speaks in public , whether it be in Par- liament , in the pulpit , or at the bar ...
... easily feel that to please people is a great step towards persuading them . You must then , consequently be sensible how advantageous it is for a man , who speaks in public , whether it be in Par- liament , in the pulpit , or at the bar ...
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Σελίδα 54 - Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket : and do not pull it out and strike it ; merely to show that you have one.
Σελίδα 172 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Σελίδα 82 - People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends ; and there is a Spanish proverb, which says very justly, Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.
Σελίδα 5 - An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible ; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all. There is a very pretty French epigram upon the death of such an ignorant, insignificant fellow ; the sting of which is, that all that can be said of him is, that he was once alive, and that he is now dead. This is the epigram, which you may get by heart : Colas est mort de maladie, Tu veux que j'en pleure le sort; Que diable veux-tu que j'en die? Colas vivoit, Colas...
Σελίδα 83 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company ; this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.