The life of the late Earl of Chesterfield: or the man of the world including his lordship's principal speeches in Parliament; his most admired essays in the paper called the World; his poems; and the substance of the system of education, delivered in a series of letters to his son ... / [Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield].

  • Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.
Date:
1774
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Credit: The life of the late Earl of Chesterfield: or the man of the world including his lordship's principal speeches in Parliament; his most admired essays in the paper called the World; his poems; and the substance of the system of education, delivered in a series of letters to his son ... / [Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ae lL i275 9] | : To thefe reflections on company and converfation, his lordthip adds an allegory, clude this chapter, and the fecond part of the Syftem of Education. “¢ Whatever I fee, or whatever I hear,” fays he, ‘* my firft confideration is, whe- ther it can, in any way, be ufeful to you. As a proof of this, ] went accidentally, the other day, into a print-fhop; where, from a famous defign of Carlo Maratti, who died about thirty years ago, and was the laft eminent painter in Europe: the School of Drawing. An old man, fup- pofed to be the matter, points to his {cho- Jars, who are varioufly employed in per- of the ftatues of antiquity. With regard to perfpective, of which there are fonte little fpecimens; he has wrote, Tanto che bafii, that is, As much as is fufficient 5 with regard to geometry, Tanto che bafti again ; ancient ftatues, there is written, Non mai a bafianza ; There never can be enough, But, in the clouds, at top of the piece, are reprefented the three Graces; with this juft fentence written over them, Senza di not ogni fatica é vana; that is, Without +The us