Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1991 - 348 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 28
... object , the object of getting on . After all this schooling he went to Paris , and seems to have made a tolerable début . There must have been a strange measuring up of qualities when father and son met . At twenty - two Lord Chester ...
... object , the object of getting on . After all this schooling he went to Paris , and seems to have made a tolerable début . There must have been a strange measuring up of qualities when father and son met . At twenty - two Lord Chester ...
Σελίδα 49
... object of his secret ideal and his real ambition we know now . Before his marriage he had , about the year 1732 , by a French lady ( Madame de Bouchet ) whom he met in Holland , a natural son to whom he was ten- derly attached . He ...
... object of his secret ideal and his real ambition we know now . Before his marriage he had , about the year 1732 , by a French lady ( Madame de Bouchet ) whom he met in Holland , a natural son to whom he was ten- derly attached . He ...
Σελίδα 247
... OBJECT . - DEAR BOY : From the time that you have had life , it has been the principal and favorite object of mine , to make you as perfect as the imperfections of human nature will allow ; in this view I have grudged no pains nor ...
... OBJECT . - DEAR BOY : From the time that you have had life , it has been the principal and favorite object of mine , to make you as perfect as the imperfections of human nature will allow ; in this view I have grudged no pains nor ...
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