Letters, Sentences and MaximsA. L. Burt Company, 1999 - 348 σελίδες A compilation of letters and maxims imparting Lord Chesterfield's guidance in the conduct of life and business matters. |
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Σελίδα 128
... easy good breeding , that engaging manner , and those graces which seduce and prepossess peo- ple in your favor at first sight . A proper care of your person is by no means to be neglected ; always extremely clean ; upon proper ...
... easy good breeding , that engaging manner , and those graces which seduce and prepossess peo- ple in your favor at first sight . A proper care of your person is by no means to be neglected ; always extremely clean ; upon proper ...
Σελίδα 322
... easy ; and you are amply paid for it , by the improvement you make , and the credit it gives you . [ Same date . ] THE BEST SCHOOL . - Company , various com- pany , is the only school for this knowledge . You ought to be , by this time ...
... easy ; and you are amply paid for it , by the improvement you make , and the credit it gives you . [ Same date . ] THE BEST SCHOOL . - Company , various com- pany , is the only school for this knowledge . You ought to be , by this time ...
Σελίδα 334
... easy to commend as to blame a great man's cook , or his tailor ; it is shorter , too ; and the objects are no more worth disputing about , than the people are worth disputing with . It is impossible to inform , but very easy to ...
... easy to commend as to blame a great man's cook , or his tailor ; it is shorter , too ; and the objects are no more worth disputing about , than the people are worth disputing with . It is impossible to inform , but very easy to ...
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Adieu ambition attention awkward bad company breeding Cæsar Castalian spring 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