A selection from Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his son, on education ... / prepared for translation into French ... By Isidore Brasseur.

  • Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Date:
1846
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Credit: A selection from Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his son, on education ... / prepared for translation into French ... By Isidore Brasseur. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 can give you no accountf of our political world, which is in a situation that I never saw in my whole life. Lord Chatham has been so ill, these last two months, that he has not been able (some say not willing) to do or hear of any* business ; and for his sous-ministres, they either cannot, or dare not, do any, with¬ out his directions; so that every thing is now at a stand.h This situation, I think, cannot last much longer ; and if Lord Chatham should either quit his post, or the world, neither of ivhich is very1 improbable, I conjecture, that what is called the Rockingham connexion, stands the fairest for the] ministry. But this is merely my conjecture; for I have neither data nor postulata enough to reason upon. When you get to Dresden, which I hope vou will not do till next month, our corres¬ pondence will be more regular. God bless you! f je ne puis vous faire le tableau—S de mettre la main ni l’oreille aux—h reste en suspens—1 commel’unou l’autre n’est pas—J aurait beau jeu pour arriver au— London, May the 5th, 1767. My dear Friend, By your letter of the 25th past, from Basle, I presume this will find you at Dresden, and accordingly I direct to you there. When you