 ... at supper, for he is always joking and laughing ; we will ask another, because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard....  Letters, Sentences and Maxims - Σελίδα 174των Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 307 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1886 - 552 σελίδες
...ask another, because he plays deep at all games or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and...consequently never respected, let his merits be what they may. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE (Earl of Clicslerfield). SELF-ESTIMATE. FROM TUE GERMAN OF GOETHE. IT is... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1888 - 346 σελίδες
...man. Vice is as degrading as it is criminal. God bless you, my dear child ! [Aug. 7, 1749.] DIGNITY OP MANNERS. — There is a certain dignity of manners...respected, let his merits be what they will. [Aug. 10, FOOLS AND THEIR FLATTERY. — Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 514 σελίδες
...ask another, because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and...never respected, let his merits be what they will. This dignity of manners, which I recommend so much to you, is not only as different from pride, as... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 σελίδες
...ask another, because he plays deep at all games or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and...consequently never respected, let his merits be what they may. PHILIP DOKMER STANHOPE (Earl of Chesterfield). SELF-ESTIMATE. FROM THE GERMAN OP GOETHE. IT is... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1897 - 168 σελίδες
...or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mprtifyjng preference, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. W'hoever...in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is 20 singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected,... | |
 | 1900 - 994 σελίδες
...self-assertion; disdain to shine by tricks, says the Academy. Whoever is known in company, says my lord, for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that...thing, and will never be considered in any other light. It is the plea for universal?, for balance. Chesterfield's contempt for the man who boasted that he... | |
 | Richard Whiteing - 1900 - 280 σελίδες
...self-assertion ; disdain to shine by tricks, says the Academy. Whoever is known in company, says my lord, for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that...thing, and will never be considered in any other light. It is the plea for universals, for balance. Chesterfield's contempt for the man who boasted that he... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope - 1901 - 514 σελίδες
...ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and...never respected, let his merits be what they will. This dignity of manners, which I recommend so much to you, is not only as different from pride, as... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1902 - 310 σελίδες
...ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and...never respected, let his merits be what they will. This dignity of manners which I recommend so much to you is not only as different from pride as true... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 σελίδες
...vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem ^d regard. Whoever is bade (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one...never respected, let his merits be what they will. This dignity of manners which I recommend so much to you, is not only as different from pride as true... | |
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