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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    _c 279 J fius, a venerable old minifter, grown grey in bufinefs, and who had governed the than forty years, was abfolutely governed by the duke of Marlborough, as that Republic feels to this day. He was al- Jeaft variation in his countenance: he could refufe more gracefully than other people could grant; and thofe who went away from him the moft diflatished, as to the fubftance of their bufinefs, were yet perfonally charmed with him, and, in’ fome degree, comforted by his manner. better, La _“ With the fhare of knowledge which you have already gotten, and with the foon acquire, what may you not expect to arrive at, if you join all thefe eraces to it? In your deftination particularly [that of a foreign minifter] they are, in truth, half your bufinefs ; for, if you can once gain the affections, as well as the court to which you-are fent, I will an- {wer for it, that will efleGtually do the wife,