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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