Letters, Sentences, and MaximsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888 - 327 σελίδες |
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... Chesterfield has not given us a treatise on duty as Cicero has ; but he has left letters which , by their mixture of ... Chesterfield , one of the most brilliant English wits of his time , and one most closely allied to France . Philip ...
... Chesterfield has not given us a treatise on duty as Cicero has ; but he has left letters which , by their mixture of ... Chesterfield , one of the most brilliant English wits of his time , and one most closely allied to France . Philip ...
Σελίδα 11
... Chesterfield told his son that to en- courage him , and to show what it is necessary to pass through . He makes himself an example to embolden him , and to draw the boy more readily to him . I shall be careful not to take his word for ...
... Chesterfield told his son that to en- courage him , and to show what it is necessary to pass through . He makes himself an example to embolden him , and to draw the boy more readily to him . I shall be careful not to take his word for ...
Σελίδα 12
Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield. was assuredly very short , nor was he much con- cerned with it . Immediately on the death of Queen Anne , Chesterfield hailed the accession of the house of Hanover , of which he became an ...
Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield. was assuredly very short , nor was he much con- cerned with it . Immediately on the death of Queen Anne , Chesterfield hailed the accession of the house of Hanover , of which he became an ...
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield. Queen Caroline never pardoned him , and this was the first check in the political fortune of Lord Chesterfield , then thirty - three years old , and in the full flush of hope . He was in too ...
Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield. Queen Caroline never pardoned him , and this was the first check in the political fortune of Lord Chesterfield , then thirty - three years old , and in the full flush of hope . He was in too ...
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... Chesterfield that nothing is so flattering to me as his approba- tion ; but that , though he is reading my work for the third time , he will only be in a better position to point out to me what wants correct- ing and rectifying in it ...
... Chesterfield that nothing is so flattering to me as his approba- tion ; but that , though he is reading my work for the third time , he will only be in a better position to point out to me what wants correct- ing and rectifying in it ...
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