 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1879 - 780 Seiten
...grow better and wiser, as it learns to treat every portion of the body with reverence and tender care. Bacon says that a pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation ; and the world now requires a missionary who shall gather up the lore of the past, and, stripping... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1888 - 346 Seiten
...not too much ? neither negligent nor stiff. All these things deserve a degree of care, a second-rate attention ; they give an additional lustre to real...agreeable forerunner of merit, and smooths the way for it. [July 30, TRUTH.— Every man seeks for truth ; but God only knows who has found it. It is, therefore,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 514 Seiten
...not too much? neither negligent nor stiff? All these things deserve a degree of care, a second-rate attention ; they give an additional lustre to real...perfection ; which if I do not meet with, or at least * From Bctham's Genealogical Tables (tab. 575) this lady appears to have been Bcnigna de Trciden, born... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 324 Seiten
...not too much ? neither negligent nor stiff. All these things deserve a degree of care, a second-rate attention; they give an additional lustre to real...agreeable forerunner of merit, and smooths the way for it. [July 30, 1747.] TRUTH.-C-Every man seeks for truth ; but God only knows who has found it. It is, therefore,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1893 - 152 Seiten
...All these things deserve a degree of care, a secondrate attention ; they give an additional luster to real merit. My Lord Bacon says, that a pleasing...agreeable forerunner of merit, and smooths the way for it. LETTER XVI. DEAR BOY, London, October the 9th, 1747. PEOPLE of your age have commonly an unguarded... | |
 | 1900 - 484 Seiten
...All these things deserve a degree of care, a second-rate attention ; they give an additional luster to real merit. My Lord Bacon says, that a pleasing...agreeable forerunner of merit, and smooths the way for it. TRUTH Every man seeks for truth ; but God only knows who has found it. It is, therefore, as unjust... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope - 1901 - 514 Seiten
...not too much, neither negligent nor stiff? All these things deserve a degree of care, a second-rate attention ; they give an additional lustre to real...says, that a pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.3 It is certainly an agreeable forerunner of merit, and smoothes the way for it. Remember... | |
 | 1902 - 508 Seiten
...All these things deserve a degree of care, a second-rate attention ; they give an additional luster to real merit. My Lord Bacon says, that a pleasing...agreeable forerunner of merit, and smooths the way for it. TRUTH Every man seeks for truth ; but God only knows who has found it. It is, therefore, as unjust... | |
 | Pratt Institute - 1893 - 582 Seiten
...washing them constantly — every morning and after every meal ? Do you dress well and not too well? My Lord Bacon says that a pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation." SKVKKAI. of the boys writing the spelling exercise for admission to the High School wrote "demagogue,... | |
 | Ada Van Stone Harris, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1907 - 396 Seiten
...deal of pain. Mine have plagued me long, and are now falling out, merely for want of care when I was your age. Do you dress well, and not too well ? Do...perpetual letter of recommendation. It is certainly a forerunner of merit, and smooths the way for it. YOUR PAPA. Observe that the writer says what he... | |
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I was of your age. Do you dress well, and not too well ? Do you consider your air and manner of presenting yourself, enough, and not too much ? neither negligent nor stiff. All these things deserve a degree of care, a second rate attention ; they give... 
