Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1991 - 348 σελίδες |
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... political landscape , could he see anything but what was rotten and revolting . In 1748 he retired . We cannot call his political career an unsuccessful one . It was probably as brilliant as it was possible for a man of his parts to ...
... political landscape , could he see anything but what was rotten and revolting . In 1748 he retired . We cannot call his political career an unsuccessful one . It was probably as brilliant as it was possible for a man of his parts to ...
Σελίδα 47
... political career of Lord Chesterfield . Nevertheless , if I hazarded a judgment upon it as a whole , I should say that his ambition was never wholly satisfied , and that the brilliant distinctions with which his public life was filled ...
... political career of Lord Chesterfield . Nevertheless , if I hazarded a judgment upon it as a whole , I should say that his ambition was never wholly satisfied , and that the brilliant distinctions with which his public life was filled ...
Σελίδα 48
... politics served to make an accomplished moralist of the imperfect man of action . In 1744 , when he was only fifty years of age , his political ambition , seemed , in part , to have died out , and the indifferent state of his health led ...
... politics served to make an accomplished moralist of the imperfect man of action . In 1744 , when he was only fifty years of age , his political ambition , seemed , in part , to have died out , and the indifferent state of his health led ...
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