Lord Chesterfields Letters

Author : Lord Chesterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199554846
Total Pages : 481 pages
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Author : Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield
Publisher : Bantam Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
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Author : Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield
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Total Pages : 106 pages
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Author : Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield
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Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son and Godson written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 440 pages
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Author : Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 019283715X
Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book Lord Chesterfield's Letters written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998-09-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, providing him with instruction in etiquette and the worldly arts. Praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching `the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master', these letters reflect the political craft of a leading statesman and the urbane wit of a man who associated with Pope, Addison, and Swift. The letters reveal Chesterfield's political cynicism and his belief that his country had `always been goverened by the only two or three people, out of two or three millions, totally incapable of governing', as well as his views on good breeding. Not originally intended for publication, this entertaining correspondence illuminates fascinating aspects of eighteenth-century life and manners. - ;`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, providing him with instruction in etiquette and the worldly arts. Praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching `the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master', these letters reflect the political craft of a leading statesman and the urbane wit of a man who associated with Pope, Addison, and Swift. The letters reveal Chesterfield's political cynicism and his belief that his country had `always been goverened by the only two or three people, out of two or three millions, totally incapable of governing', as well as his views on good breeding. Not originally intended for publication, this entertaining correspondence illuminates fascinating aspects of eighteenth-century life and manners. -

Author : Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014102454
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Author : Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
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Author : Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.)
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Total Pages : 438 pages
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Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595589147
Total Pages : 458 pages
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