Letters, Sentences, and MaximsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888 - 327 σελίδες |
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... authors are my principal re- source : Voltaire especially charms me , with the exception of his impiety , with which he cannot help seasoning all that he writes , and which he would do better carefully to suppress , for one ought not to ...
... authors are my principal re- source : Voltaire especially charms me , with the exception of his impiety , with which he cannot help seasoning all that he writes , and which he would do better carefully to suppress , for one ought not to ...
Σελίδα 26
... authors , those whom Chesterfield particu- larly recommends at this time , and those whose names occur most frequently in his counsels , are La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyère . “ If you read some of La Rochefoucauld's maxims in the ...
... authors , those whom Chesterfield particu- larly recommends at this time , and those whose names occur most frequently in his counsels , are La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyère . “ If you read some of La Rochefoucauld's maxims in the ...
Σελίδα 40
... authors with attention ; and to * In a previous letter , which has been lost , Chesterfield has been teaching rhetoric to a boy of about seven years old , for , referring to it , he says : " En vérité je crois que vous êtes le premier ...
... authors with attention ; and to * In a previous letter , which has been lost , Chesterfield has been teaching rhetoric to a boy of about seven years old , for , referring to it , he says : " En vérité je crois que vous êtes le premier ...
Σελίδα 58
... authors , he became at last the greatest orator of his own or any other age or country , though he was born without any one natural talent for it . Adieu ! Copy Demosthenes . [ ( ? ) August , 1741. ] KEEP YOUR WORD . - I am sure you ...
... authors , he became at last the greatest orator of his own or any other age or country , though he was born without any one natural talent for it . Adieu ! Copy Demosthenes . [ ( ? ) August , 1741. ] KEEP YOUR WORD . - I am sure you ...
Σελίδα 61
... authors , sometimes for their own profit , but oftener ( as they were generally slaves ) for the profit of their masters . In the first case , dispatch , more than accuracy , was their object ; for the faster they wrote the more they ...
... authors , sometimes for their own profit , but oftener ( as they were generally slaves ) for the profit of their masters . In the first case , dispatch , more than accuracy , was their object ; for the faster they wrote the more they ...
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Adieu adorn ambition attention awkward bad company best companies breeding Cæsar certainly character Cicero common commonly complaisance consequently contempt conversation Corinthian order court dance degree Demosthenes deserve desire dress easy Englishman fashion favor folly fool French frivolous G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS genteel give good-breeding graces Harte heart hope House of Savoy imagine inattention Julius Cæsar justly king knowledge laugh laziness learning least letters Lord Bolingbroke Lord Chesterfield Lord Shaftesbury mankind manners mean merit mind Montesquieu morality nature necessary never object observe pany passion person pleasing pleasures politeness proper reason remember never respect ridicule sense shine silly Sir James Gray speak Stanhope sure taste tell thing thought tion trifling true truth vanity vice Viceroy of Ireland virtue Voltaire vulgar weak wish women words young