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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... party - writer when under twenty . See the notes on the Dunciad , Book II ; where Arnall is faid to have received , for Free Britons and other writings , in four years , the fum of 109977. 65. 84. out of the treasury . B 4 proffive ...
... party - writer when under twenty . See the notes on the Dunciad , Book II ; where Arnall is faid to have received , for Free Britons and other writings , in four years , the fum of 109977. 65. 84. out of the treasury . B 4 proffive ...
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... party tickled ; infomuch , that a man's fortune is made as foon as he gets to be tickler to any confiderable mandarin .. " The emperor , as in juftice he ought , enjoys this pleasure in its highest perfection ; and all the con ...
... party tickled ; infomuch , that a man's fortune is made as foon as he gets to be tickler to any confiderable mandarin .. " The emperor , as in juftice he ought , enjoys this pleasure in its highest perfection ; and all the con ...
Sivu 42
... parties to be weighed , be ftrictly prohi- bited , as they might give an undue fhare of weight to the scale in which they may be thrown , and have the fame fatal confequences here , that , in my opinion , they have already had in ...
... parties to be weighed , be ftrictly prohi- bited , as they might give an undue fhare of weight to the scale in which they may be thrown , and have the fame fatal confequences here , that , in my opinion , they have already had in ...
Sivu 53
... party denomination , though he may be utterly re- gardless of its principles . His expence Thould ex- ceed his income confiderably , not for the neceffaries , but for the fuperfluities of life , that the debts he con- E 3 tracts tracts ...
... party denomination , though he may be utterly re- gardless of its principles . His expence Thould ex- ceed his income confiderably , not for the neceffaries , but for the fuperfluities of life , that the debts he con- E 3 tracts tracts ...
Sivu 54
... party glories in being countenanced by him , and his honor is frequently quoted as a fanction for their conduct . But fome original letters , which I fhall give my readers , will let them more intimately into the particulars of fo ...
... party glories in being countenanced by him , and his honor is frequently quoted as a fanction for their conduct . But fome original letters , which I fhall give my readers , will let them more intimately into the particulars of fo ...
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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...