Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1991 - 348 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 24
... received ; or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself . " Having carried on my work thus far , with so little obliga- tion to any favorer of learning ...
... received ; or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself . " Having carried on my work thus far , with so little obliga- tion to any favorer of learning ...
Σελίδα 90
... received , for want of having these talents , too ; and others well received only from their little talents , and who had no great ones . ORATORY AND HARD WORK . - Demosthenes , the celebrated Greek orator , thought it so absolutely nec ...
... received , for want of having these talents , too ; and others well received only from their little talents , and who had no great ones . ORATORY AND HARD WORK . - Demosthenes , the celebrated Greek orator , thought it so absolutely nec ...
Σελίδα 148
... received orders as a minister abroad , send or- ders , in your turn , as Secretary of State at home . Most of our ministers abroad have taken up that department occasionally , without having ever thought of foreign affairs before - many ...
... received orders as a minister abroad , send or- ders , in your turn , as Secretary of State at home . Most of our ministers abroad have taken up that department occasionally , without having ever thought of foreign affairs before - many ...
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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