Elements of a Polite Education: Carefully Selected from the Letters of the Late Right Honorable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His SonJoseph Bumstead, 1801 - 444 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 13
... hear that you are returned from your travels well , and in good humour . As I know you have a pleasure in learning , I take it for granted that you have refumed your ftudies ; for time is pre- cious , life short , and confequently one ...
... hear that you are returned from your travels well , and in good humour . As I know you have a pleasure in learning , I take it for granted that you have refumed your ftudies ; for time is pre- cious , life short , and confequently one ...
Σελίδα 16
... hear from me often enough ; and my letters may be of ufe , if you will give attention to them ; otherwife it is only giving myfelf trouble to no purpofe ; for it fignifies nothing to read a thing once , if one does not mind and remember ...
... hear from me often enough ; and my letters may be of ufe , if you will give attention to them ; otherwife it is only giving myfelf trouble to no purpofe ; for it fignifies nothing to read a thing once , if one does not mind and remember ...
Σελίδα 26
... hear the watchman fay often in three words , a cloudy morning , is faid thus in verfe , in the trag- edy of Cato : The dawn is overcast , the morning lowers , And heavily in clouds brings on the day . This is poetical diction ; which ...
... hear the watchman fay often in three words , a cloudy morning , is faid thus in verfe , in the trag- edy of Cato : The dawn is overcast , the morning lowers , And heavily in clouds brings on the day . This is poetical diction ; which ...
Σελίδα 31
... hear from Mr. Maittaire , that you are fo ready at fcanning both Greek and Latin ver- fes ; but I hope you mind the fenfe of the words , as well as the quantities . The great advantage of know- ing many languages , confifts in ...
... hear from Mr. Maittaire , that you are fo ready at fcanning both Greek and Latin ver- fes ; but I hope you mind the fenfe of the words , as well as the quantities . The great advantage of know- ing many languages , confifts in ...
Σελίδα 41
... hear from me without an admoni- OU tion to think . All you learn , and all you can read , will be of little ufe , if you do not think and reafon up- on it yourself . One reads to know other people's thoughts ; but if we take them upon ...
... hear from me without an admoni- OU tion to think . All you learn , and all you can read , will be of little ufe , if you do not think and reafon up- on it yourself . One reads to know other people's thoughts ; but if we take them upon ...
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The Elements of a Polite Education Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield,George Gregory Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1800 |
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Σελίδα 86 - The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world and not in a closet. Books alone will never teach it you; but they will suggest many things to your observation, which might otherwise escape you ; and your own observations upon mankind, when compared with those which you will find in books, will help you to fix the true point.
Σελίδα 111 - Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket : and do not pull it out and strike it ; merely to show that you have one.
Σελίδα 204 - ... but on the contrary, always decline them yourself, and offer them to others, who in their turns will offer them to you ; so that upon the whole you will in your turn enjoy your share of the common right. It would be endless for me to enumerate all the particular instances in which a well-bred man shows his good breeding in good company; and it would be injurious to you to...
Σελίδα 101 - One may fairly suppose that a man who makes a knave or a fool his friend, has something very bad to do, or to conceal. But, at the same time that you carefully decline the friendship of knaves and fools, if it can be called friendship, there is no occasion to make either of them your enemies, wantonly and unprovoked ; for they are numerous bodies ; and I would rather choose a secure neutrality, than alliance or war, with either of them.
Σελίδα 151 - Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Σελίδα 204 - There is a third sort of good breeding in which people are the most apt to fail from a very mistaken notion that they cannot fail at all, — I mean with regard to one's most familiar friends and acquaintances, or those who really are our inferiors ; and there undoubtedly a greater degree of ease is not only allowed but proper, and contributes much to the comforts of a private social life. But that ease and freedom have their bounds too, which must by no means be violated.
Σελίδα 312 - There is a man whose moral character, deep learning, and superior parts, I acknowledge, admire, and respect ; but whom it is so impossible for me to love, that I am almost in a fever whenever I am in his company. His figure (without being deformed) seems made to disgrace or ridicule the common structure of the human body. His legs and arms are never in the position which according to the situation of his body they ought to be in, but constantly employed in committing acts of hostility upon the Graces....
Σελίδα 47 - ... his breeches. At dinner his awkwardness distinguishes itself particularly, as he has more to do; there he holds his knife, fork and spoon differently from other people ; eats with his knife to...
Σελίδα 90 - My long and frequent letters, which I send you in great doubt of their success, put me in mind of certain papers, which you have very lately, and I formerly, sent up to kites, along the string, which we called messengers ; some of them the wind used to blow away, others were torn by the string, and but few of them got up .and stuck to the kite.
Σελίδα 218 - He receives the common attentions of civility as obligations, which he returns with interest; and resents with passion the little inadvertencies of human nature, which he repays with interest too.