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 7
... live ftanding army to this , they are confiderations of a private nature , and must not weigh against fo general and public a good . To the pleafant ' fquire I reply , that this army will ftand its own fire very well ; which is all that ...
... live ftanding army to this , they are confiderations of a private nature , and must not weigh against fo general and public a good . To the pleafant ' fquire I reply , that this army will ftand its own fire very well ; which is all that ...
Sivu 9
... live men , of the height , proportions , and tremendous aspects , that I propofe these fhould be of . But the annual faving will be fo confiderable , that I will appeal to every fenfible and impartial man in the kingdom , if he does not ...
... live men , of the height , proportions , and tremendous aspects , that I propofe these fhould be of . But the annual faving will be fo confiderable , that I will appeal to every fenfible and impartial man in the kingdom , if he does not ...
Sivu 45
... live , at the ex- pence of the rich and the idle . I would no more have a woman of quality dreffed in doggrel , than a farmer's wife in heroics . But I hereby notify to the profufe wives of induftrious tradefmen and honeft yeomen , that ...
... live , at the ex- pence of the rich and the idle . I would no more have a woman of quality dreffed in doggrel , than a farmer's wife in heroics . But I hereby notify to the profufe wives of induftrious tradefmen and honeft yeomen , that ...
Sivu 88
... live in a conftant course of practical lying , and in the ab- furd and fanguine hopes of paffing undetected . Fatuus , the moft confummate coxcomb of this or any other age or country , has parts enough to have excelled excelled in ...
... live in a conftant course of practical lying , and in the ab- furd and fanguine hopes of paffing undetected . Fatuus , the moft confummate coxcomb of this or any other age or country , has parts enough to have excelled excelled in ...
Sivu 93
... lives in the incatenation of fleas , or the curious fculp- ture of cherry - ftones ; while others , whofe thirst of knowledge leads them to investigate the fecrets of nature , spend years in their elaboratory , in pursuit of the ...
... lives in the incatenation of fleas , or the curious fculp- ture of cherry - ftones ; while others , whofe thirst of knowledge leads them to investigate the fecrets of nature , spend years in their elaboratory , in pursuit of the ...
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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...