Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1991 - 348 σελίδες |
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... Lord Chesterfield . One of the more important figures in the political world of his time ; one of the few Lord - Lieutenants of Ireland whose name was after- ward respected and admired ; the first man to intro- duce Voltaire and ...
... Lord Chesterfield . One of the more important figures in the political world of his time ; one of the few Lord - Lieutenants of Ireland whose name was after- ward respected and admired ; the first man to intro- duce Voltaire and ...
Σελίδα 13
... Lord of Stehler , Bezendorff , Angern , " etc. But we may well remember Lord Chesterfield's own words here : " It is a happy phrase that a lady has presented her husband with a son , for this does not admit anything of its parentage ...
... Lord of Stehler , Bezendorff , Angern , " etc. But we may well remember Lord Chesterfield's own words here : " It is a happy phrase that a lady has presented her husband with a son , for this does not admit anything of its parentage ...
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... lord , your lord- ship's most humble and most obedient servant , " SAMUEL JOHNSON . " Such a transaction is but little to the praise of Lord Chesterfield , who would have posed as the Mæcenas of the eighteenth century . But there the ...
... lord , your lord- ship's most humble and most obedient servant , " SAMUEL JOHNSON . " Such a transaction is but little to the praise of Lord Chesterfield , who would have posed as the Mæcenas of the eighteenth century . But there the ...
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