Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1991 - 348 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 82
... learning , honor , and virtue are absolutely necessary to gain you the esteem and admiration of mankind ; politeness and good breeding are equally necessary , to make you welcome and agreeable in conversation and common life . Great ...
... learning , honor , and virtue are absolutely necessary to gain you the esteem and admiration of mankind ; politeness and good breeding are equally necessary , to make you welcome and agreeable in conversation and common life . Great ...
Σελίδα 109
... learning ; but , in general , they make up so much by their manner for those defects , that frequently they pass undiscovered . I have often said , and do think , that a Frenchman , who , with a fund of virtue , learning , and good ...
... learning ; but , in general , they make up so much by their manner for those defects , that frequently they pass undiscovered . I have often said , and do think , that a Frenchman , who , with a fund of virtue , learning , and good ...
Σελίδα 138
... LEARNING . - I have known these absurdities carried so far by people of injudicious learning , that I should not be surprised if some of them were to propose , while we were at war with the Gauls , that a number of geese should be kept ...
... LEARNING . - I have known these absurdities carried so far by people of injudicious learning , that I should not be surprised if some of them were to propose , while we were at war with the Gauls , that a number of geese should be kept ...
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Adieu ambition attention awkward bad company breeding Cæsar certainly character Cicero common complaisance consequently contempt conversation Corinthian order court dance degree Demosthenes deserve desire dress easy endeavor engage Englishman everything fashion father favor folly fool French frivolous genteel gentleman give good-breeding graces greatest Greek Harte heart hope House of Savoy inattention Julius Cæsar justly king knowledge laugh learning least letters live Lord Bolingbroke Lord Chesterfield Lord Mahon low company man's mankind manners mean ment merit mind minister Montesquieu moral nature necessary never object observe pany passion pleasing pleasure political proper Quintilian reason remember never respect ridicule sense shine silly Sir James Gray speak Stanhope sure taste tell things thought tion trifling true truth Viceroy of Ireland virtue Voltaire vulgar weak wish women words writes wrote young