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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    | yl eae he has often told me himfelf, by an early and conftant attention to his ftyle. The prefent» Solicitor-general, Murray, [now Lord Mansfield] has lefs law than many Jawyers, but has more practice than any ;_ merely upon account of his eloquence, “¢ J remember, fo long ago as whén pieces of eloquence (and indeed thev were my chief ftudy) whether ancient or pafflages, and then tranflate them, as well | and as elegantly as ever | could; if Latin or French, into Englith ; if & ngiifh, into French, This, which 4 practifed for fome years, not only improved and formed my {tyle, but imprinted in. my mind and memory the belt thoughts of the bet authors, Lhe trouble was little, but the advantage, I have experienced, was great, While you are abroad, you can neither have time nor opportunity to read pieces of Engiifh, or Parliamentary eloquence, as | hope you will carefully do when you return ; but, in the mean time, whenever pieces of #rench eloquence come in your