Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield: Consisting of Letters to His Friends, Never Before Printed, and Various Other Articles : to which are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life, Tending to Illustrate the Civil, Literary, and Political History of His Time, Nide 2Edward and Charles Dilly, 1779 |
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Sivu 32
... French fashion is very favourable to me in this particular , I flatter myself , they will not disdain to have fome common fense about their heads at so easy a rate . Should I ever , as poffibly I often may , be ex- tremely dull , I will ...
... French fashion is very favourable to me in this particular , I flatter myself , they will not disdain to have fome common fense about their heads at so easy a rate . Should I ever , as poffibly I often may , be ex- tremely dull , I will ...
Sivu 50
... , to thofe exceffes , which otherwife I fhall not tolerate . I must add , that if it be fo genteel to copy the French , even in their weakneffes , I thould humbly hope it might be thought ftill more fo , to 7 hope 50 LORD CHESTERFIELD'S.
... , to thofe exceffes , which otherwife I fhall not tolerate . I must add , that if it be fo genteel to copy the French , even in their weakneffes , I thould humbly hope it might be thought ftill more fo , to 7 hope 50 LORD CHESTERFIELD'S.
Sivu 51
... French eclipfe : would fome of our fine women emulate that spirit , and affert , as they might do with much more truth , that the foreign manufactures are not to be compared to the English ; fuch a declaration would be worth two or ...
... French eclipfe : would fome of our fine women emulate that spirit , and affert , as they might do with much more truth , that the foreign manufactures are not to be compared to the English ; fuch a declaration would be worth two or ...
Sivu 83
... French lan- guage furnishes great abundance . Here the ca- taftrophe comes fooner , and nature has its fhare , as well as fentiments ; fo that a lady may exactly fit the humour the happens to be in . If a gentle languor only infpires ...
... French lan- guage furnishes great abundance . Here the ca- taftrophe comes fooner , and nature has its fhare , as well as fentiments ; fo that a lady may exactly fit the humour the happens to be in . If a gentle languor only infpires ...
Sivu 119
... French cook , wishing all the while within himfelf , that he durft avow his natural tafte for good native beef and pudding . The abfurdity , as well as the real ill confequences , of this prevailing affectation , has , I confefs ...
... French cook , wishing all the while within himfelf , that he durft avow his natural tafte for good native beef and pudding . The abfurdity , as well as the real ill confequences , of this prevailing affectation , has , I confefs ...
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Sivu 304 - Wit, my Lords, is a sort of property; it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is indeed but a precarious dependence. Thank God! we, my Lords, have a dependence of another kind...
Sivu 294 - I fear we have more reason to complain of bad measures in our polity, and a general decay of virtue and morality among the people. In public, as well as private life, the only way to prevent being ridiculed or censured, is to avoid all ridiculous or wicked measures, and to pursue such only as are virtuous and worthy.
Sivu 357 - At other times he was a cheerful and agreeable companion ; but, conscious that he was not always so, he avoided company too much, and was too often alone, giving way to a train of gloomy reflections. His constitution, which was never robust, broke rapidly at the latter end of his life.
Sivu 305 - Gentleman will be exposed to who writes any thing for the Stage, must certainly prevent every Man of a generous and free Spirit from attempting any Thing in that Way; and as the Stage has always been the proper Channel for Wit and Humour, therefore, my Lords, when I...
Sivu 243 - My friend was going on, and to say the truth, growing dull, when I took the liberty of interrupting him, by acknowledging that the cogency of his arguments, and the...
Sivu 320 - Lords, the law is not to be condemned for its inefficacy, since it only fails by the defect of those who are to direct its operations. The best and most important laws will contribute very little to the security or happiness of a people, if no judges of integrity and spirit can be found among them.
Sivu 281 - ... for keeping : every age has degenerated ; and, from the fall of the first man, my unfortunate ancestor, our species has been tumbling on, century by century, from bad to worse, for about six thousand years. Considering this progressive state of deterioration, it is a very great mercy that things are no worse with us at present ; since, geometrically speaking, the human ought by this time to have sunk infinitely below the brute and the vegetable species, which...
Sivu 259 - Townly observed with concern and impatience, that people of fashion now came intolerably late, and in a glut at once, which laid the lady of the house under great difficulties to make the parties properly. That, no doubt...
Sivu 239 - The fact will appear so incredible, that it will certainly be believed; the only difficulty will be how to account for it ; and that, as it commonly does, will engross the attention of the learned.
Sivu 303 - Court, which is only a most just and a most necessary satire upon the fashionable vices and follies of the Court. Courtiers, my Lords, are too polite to reprove one another ; the only place where they can meet with any just reproof, is a free though not a licentious stage...