Letters written by the ... earl of Chesterfield to his son, publ. by E. Stanhope, 3. kötet |
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9. oldal
... best French companies than in any other . You will not want opportunities , for I shall send you let- ters that will establish you in the most distinguished companies , not only of the beau monde , but of the beaux efprits too ...
... best French companies than in any other . You will not want opportunities , for I shall send you let- ters that will establish you in the most distinguished companies , not only of the beau monde , but of the beaux efprits too ...
15. oldal
... best Ora- tor , and abfolutely the best General there . An un- interrupted life of pleasure is as infipid as contemp- tible . Some hours given every day to ferious bufi- nefs must whet both the mind and the fenfes , to enjoy those of ...
... best Ora- tor , and abfolutely the best General there . An un- interrupted life of pleasure is as infipid as contemp- tible . Some hours given every day to ferious bufi- nefs must whet both the mind and the fenfes , to enjoy those of ...
18. oldal
... best price he can , within certain bounds . He may avail himself of the humour , the whims , and the fantastical taftes of his cuftomers ; but what he warrants to be good must be really fo , what he fe- riously afferts muft be true , or ...
... best price he can , within certain bounds . He may avail himself of the humour , the whims , and the fantastical taftes of his cuftomers ; but what he warrants to be good must be really fo , what he fe- riously afferts muft be true , or ...
22. oldal
... best companies . I am told that strangers are re- ceived with the utmost hofpitality at Prince ; que lui il fait bonne chére , et que madame la Princeffe donne chére entière ; mais que fa chair eft plus que bazardée ou mortifiée même ...
... best companies . I am told that strangers are re- ceived with the utmost hofpitality at Prince ; que lui il fait bonne chére , et que madame la Princeffe donne chére entière ; mais que fa chair eft plus que bazardée ou mortifiée même ...
44. oldal
... best compofitions of Corelli , if ill executed , and played out of tune , instead of touching , as they do when well performed , would only excite the indignation of the hearers , when murdered by an unskilful per- former . But to ...
... best compofitions of Corelli , if ill executed , and played out of tune , instead of touching , as they do when well performed , would only excite the indignation of the hearers , when murdered by an unskilful per- former . But to ...
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325. oldal - It is your first crisis ; the character which you acquire there will, more or less, be that which will abide by you for the rest of your life. You will be tried and judged there, not as a boy, but as a man ; and from that moment there is -no appeal for character : it is fixed.
128. oldal - He throws any where, but down his throat, whatever he means to drink ; and only mangles what he means to carve.
123. oldal - To bring this directly to you ; know that no man can make a figure in this country, but by parliament. Your fate depends upon your...
114. oldal - He may be in haste to dispatch an affair, but he will take care not to let that haste hinder his doing it well. Little minds are in a hurry, when the object proves (as it commonly does) too big for them : they run, they hare, they puzzle, confound, and perplex themselves ; they want to do everything at once, and never do it at all.
215. oldal - I was an absolute pedant : when I talked my best, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial ; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid.
136. oldal - ... business. On the other hand, let no complaisance, no gentleness of temper, no weak desire of pleasing on your part, no wheedling, coaxing, nor flattery, on other people's, make you recede one jot from any point that reason and...
59. oldal - I do by no means advise you to throw away your time in ransacking, like a dull antiquarian, the minute and unimportant parts of remote and fabulous times. Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
372. oldal - I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke ; but now I must have all sense, and cannot for the sake of five righteous lines forgive a thousand absurd ones.
33. oldal - Les vertus qu'on nous y montre sont toujours moins ce que l'on doit aux autres, que ce que l'on se doit à soi-même : elles ne sont pas tant ce qui nous appelle vers nos concitoyens que ce qui nous en distingue.
147. oldal - Marcel can be of much more use to you than Aristotle. I would, upon my word, much rather that you had Lord Bolingbroke's style and eloquence, in speaking and writing, than all the learning of the Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, and the two Universities united.