 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1902 - 310 Seiten
...man of sense and a fop is that the fop 1 Written during Lord Chesterfield's viceroyalty in Ireland. values himself upon his dress, and the man of sense...other people, if you can ; but do not tell them so. V. ELOCUTION: METHOD OF DEMOSTHENES. DUBLIN CASTLE, Feb. 8, 1746. You propose, I find, Demosthenes... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 Seiten
...ourselves. ANON. The public ! why, the public 's nothing better than a great baby. CHALMERS, Letters, Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. CHESTERFIELD, Letters. Dublin Castle, Nov. 19, 1745. Greatness is never thrust upon a man that leads... | |
 | Henry Seton Merriman, Hugh Stowell Scott - 1903 - 296 Seiten
..."It will be as well that she should be occupied with her own affairs." CHAPTER VIII. A VISITATION. Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. WHENEVER Papa Barlasch caught sight of his unwilling host's face, he turned his own aside with a despairing... | |
 | John Morrow, Andrew Curtin McLean, Thomas Charles Blaisdell - 1903 - 364 Seiten
...Longfellow. 6. Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still. — Churchill. 7. Be wiser than other people if you can ; but do not tell them so. — Lord Chesterfield. 8. A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silvery... | |
 | John Morrow, Andrew Curtin McLean, Thomas Charles Blaisdell - 1903 - 364 Seiten
...Longfellow. 6. Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still. — Churchill. 7. Be wiser than other people if you can ; but do not tell them so. — Lord Chesterfield. 8. A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silvery... | |
 | Hugh Stowell Scott - 1903 - 378 Seiten
..." It will be as well that she should be occupied with her own affairs." CHAPTEB VIII. A VISITATION. Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them to. WHENEVER Papa Barlascb caught sight of his unwilling host's face, he turned his own aside with... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1906 - 318 Seiten
...their doom, For Pope has wrote upon their tomb. Lord Chesterfield Gleanings from the Letters to his Son BE wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. Advice is seldom welcome, and those who want it the most always like it the least. Imitate, with discernment... | |
 | John Morrow - 1906 - 360 Seiten
...Longfellow. 6. Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still. — Churchill. 7. Be wiser than other people if you can ; but do not tell them so. — Lord Chesterfield. 8. A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silvery... | |
 | 1922 - 570 Seiten
...colleges, who looks up graduates of that institution and by a hard story seeks to obtain his fare home. — Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. The Stigmatized Friar of Foggia In the Simla Times, a correspondent who is obviously highly placed... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 Seiten
...understanding, that it is rather a proof of it, to be as well dressed as those with whom he lives: march With hurricane, fire, and snow, When the powers...chair, Is the million-colored bow; 7° The sphere-fire SL It is a very fortunate thing for Sir Charles Hotham, to have fallen into the hands of one of your... | |
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For instance; dress is a very foolish thing; and yet it is a very foolish thing for a man not to be well dressed, according to his rank and way of life; and it is so far from being a disparagement to any man's understanding, that it is rather a proof... 
