The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, Band 1Methuen, 1901 - 502 Seiten |
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... things that must burst him " . This is exactly the humour of Chesterfield . ( See Life and Letters of Sir George Savile , first Marquis of Halifax , by H. C. Foxcroft , His experiences on delivering his first speech may be found 1898 ...
... things that must burst him " . This is exactly the humour of Chesterfield . ( See Life and Letters of Sir George Savile , first Marquis of Halifax , by H. C. Foxcroft , His experiences on delivering his first speech may be found 1898 ...
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... things to keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption - a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices that may accompany it . Accept no present whatever ; let your character in that respect be ...
... things to keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption - a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices that may accompany it . Accept no present whatever ; let your character in that respect be ...
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... things and preserve his self - respect . We may well be proud of the number of Englishmen who are equal to the task . It would be fanciful , perhaps , to assert that the second reason of Chesterfield's ill success in England - his ...
... things and preserve his self - respect . We may well be proud of the number of Englishmen who are equal to the task . It would be fanciful , perhaps , to assert that the second reason of Chesterfield's ill success in England - his ...
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... things at the expense of others , and points out the folly of making an enemy for the sake of a bon mot . All this comes very oddly from the mouth of a man to whom Lord Hervey , with malicious point , applies Boileau's couplet -- Mais c ...
... things at the expense of others , and points out the folly of making an enemy for the sake of a bon mot . All this comes very oddly from the mouth of a man to whom Lord Hervey , with malicious point , applies Boileau's couplet -- Mais c ...
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... things of course . Truth , but not the whole truth , must be the invariable principle of every man , who hath either ... thing to be reserved to such times ' . You don't mind the times . You tell a man : ' I am sorry you had such bad ...
... things of course . Truth , but not the whole truth , must be the invariable principle of every man , who hath either ... thing to be reserved to such times ' . You don't mind the times . You tell a man : ' I am sorry you had such bad ...
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Seite 262 - ... they love mightily to be dabbling in business (which by the way, they always spoil) ; and being justly distrustful, that men in general look upon them in a trifling light, they almost adore that man, who talks more seriously to them, and who seems to consult and trust them ; I say, who seems, for weak men really do, but wise ones only seem to do it. ( No flattery is either too high or too low for them. They will greedily swallow the highest, and gratefully accept of the lowest; and you may safely...
Seite 212 - Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners : it is the manner in which the mob express their silly joy at silly things ; and they call it being merry. In my mind there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
Seite lxvi - My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. You may talk as other people do : you may say to a man, ' Sir, I am your humble servant.' You are not his most humble servant. You may say, ' These are bad times ; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times.
Seite lx - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Seite 366 - This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes ; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice and bouncing his head against every post, and in the streets, of jostling others, or being jostled himself, into the kennel.
Seite 386 - Breeding to be, the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self -denial for the sake of others, and with a view to ' obtain the same indulgence from them.
Seite 293 - ... them ; for I will venture (contrary to the custom of profound historians, who always assign deep causes for great events), to ascribe the better half of the Duke of Marlborough's greatness and riches to those graces. He was eminently illiterate ; wrote bad English and spelled it still worse.
Seite xxv - Wit, my lords, is a sort of property : it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is indeed hut a precarious dependence. Thank God ! we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind...
Seite 183 - ... topic of conversation ; for every man talks most of what he has most a mind to be thought to excel in. Touch him but there, and you touch him to the quick. The late Sir Robert Walpole (who was certainly an able man) was little open to flattery upon that head, for he was in no doubt himself about it ; but his prevailing weakness was, to be thought to have a polite and happy turn to gallantry, — of which he had undoubtedly less than any man living.
Seite 154 - Search every one for that ruling passion; pry into the recesses of his heart, and observe the different workings of the same passion in different people; and, when you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.