Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1991 - 348 σελίδες |
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... Chesterfield did not mean to be anything but inscrutable . " Dis- similation is a shield , " he used to say , " as secrecy is armor . " " A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be , and an old fellow ought to seem wise ...
... Chesterfield did not mean to be anything but inscrutable . " Dis- similation is a shield , " he used to say , " as secrecy is armor . " " A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be , and an old fellow ought to seem wise ...
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... Chesterfield died , leaving his son his title . The latter event raised him to the House of Lords - the Hospital for Incurables , as Lord Chesterfield calls it . The former should have raised him to higher office still ; but that policy ...
... Chesterfield died , leaving his son his title . The latter event raised him to the House of Lords - the Hospital for Incurables , as Lord Chesterfield calls it . The former should have raised him to higher office still ; but that policy ...
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield. Henriade . Chesterfield and Bolingbroke at once took him up and introduced him into high places . * Voltaire never forgot him nor the services which he had rendered ; and one of the most ...
Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield. Henriade . Chesterfield and Bolingbroke at once took him up and introduced him into high places . * Voltaire never forgot him nor the services which he had rendered ; and one of the most ...
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