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... which fits a man to perform justly , skilfully , and magnanimously , all the offices , both public and private , of peace and war . " This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate ; the test of all intellectual and all moral ...
... which fits a man to perform justly , skilfully , and magnanimously , all the offices , both public and private , of peace and war . " This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate ; the test of all intellectual and all moral ...
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Abridgment Adieu affectionate uncle AFTERWARDS LORD CAMELFORD amiable awkward and ungenteel Bath behaviour best compliments BLACK HORSE COURT Burnet's History Cambridge character Clarendon conscience considered course danger dear boy dear child DEAR NEPHEW dearest nephew desires her best DROPMORE EARL OF CHATHAM eloquence English history father gentleman gerous give gout graceful habit happy Hayes hear heart hope intended James's Square Lady Hester desires late learning Leech lessons of Lord Let me know LETTER London Lord Chatham love of virtue Ludlow Macte tuâ Virtute manly manner matter ment mind moral muses Nathaniel Bacon natural neral ness never noble obliged opinions Patriæ Pay Office perfect perience pleased pleasure politeness proper racter recommend religion render Sir Richard soon statesman Sunning Hill sure thanks things thor tion truest affection trust Virgil Virgil's Æneid wards Wheler wish write youth ἀγαθῶν καὶ Τῆς
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Seite xxix - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Seite 2 - Musam meditaris avena ; nos patriae fines et dulcia linquimus arva : nos patriam fugimus ; tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas.
Seite 36 - I believe it is best to be known by description; definition not being able to comprise it. I would however venture to call it, benevolence in trifles, or the preference of others to ourselves in little daily, hourly, occurrences in the commerce of life.
Seite 46 - With regard to all things that appear not to your reason, after due examination, evident duties of honour, morality, or religion, (and in all such as do, let your conscience and reason determine your notions and conduct) — in all other matters, I say, be slow to form opinions, keep your mind in a candid state of suspense, and open to full conviction when you shall procure it, using in the mean time the experience of a friend you can trust, the sincerity of whose advice you will try and prove by...
Seite 27 - The first is the perfection and glory of the human nature; the two last, the deprivation and disgrace of it Remember the essence of religion is, a heart void of offence towards God and man; not subtle speculative opinions, but an active vital principle of faith.
Seite 26 - Creator in the days of thy youth, is big with the deepest wisdom: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom ; and, an upright heart, that is understanding. This is externally true, whether the wits and rakes of Cambridge allow it or not: nay, I must add of this religious wisdom, Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace, whatever your young gentlemen of pleasure think of a whore and a bottle, a tainted health and battered constitution.
Seite 36 - ... but sacrificing ourselves in such trifles to the convenience and pleasure of others ? And this constitutes true politeness. It is a perpetual attention (by habit it grows easy and natural to us) to the little wants of those we are with, by which we either prevent or remove them.
Seite 97 - DEAR NEPHEW, I HAVE the pleasure to acquaint you with the glad tidings of Hayes. Lady Hester was safely delivered this morning of a son. She and the child are as well as possible, and the father in the joy of his heart.
Seite 54 - I recommend to you next (before any other reading of history) Oldcastle's Remarks on the History of England, by Lord Bolingbroke. Let me apprize you of one thing before you read them, and that is, that the author has bent some passages to make them invidious parallels to the times he wrote in; therefore be aware of that, and depend, in general, on finding the truest constitutional doctrines: and that the facts of history (though warped) are no where falsified. I also recommend Nathaniel Bacon's Historical...
Seite 55 - Selden's executors, that the ground work of this book was laid by that great and learned man. And it is probably on the ground of this assertion, that in the folio edition of Bacon's book, printed in 1739, it is said in the title-page to have been "collected from some manuscript notes of John Selden, Esq.
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| Titel | Letters written by the earl of Chatham to Thomas Pitt. Repr |
| Autor/in | William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) |
| Veröffentlicht | 1810 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 21. Sept. 2006 |
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