Letters written by the ... earl of Chesterfield to his son, publ. by E. Stanhope, 3. kötet |
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13. oldal
... object , and fetting out wrong in the purfuit . The character of a man of pleasure dazzles young eyes ; they do not fee their way to it diftinctly , and fall into vice and profligacy . I remember a ftrong inftance of this a great many ...
... object , and fetting out wrong in the purfuit . The character of a man of pleasure dazzles young eyes ; they do not fee their way to it diftinctly , and fall into vice and profligacy . I remember a ftrong inftance of this a great many ...
20. oldal
... by little extrane → ous objects , which have not the leaft relation to them- felves ; fuch as being defcended from , related to , of acquainted acquainted with , people of diftinguished merit , and eminent 20 LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS.
... by little extrane → ous objects , which have not the leaft relation to them- felves ; fuch as being defcended from , related to , of acquainted acquainted with , people of diftinguished merit , and eminent 20 LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS.
31. oldal
... object , but instantly directed to the prefent one , be it what it will . An abfent man can make but few obferva- tions and thofe will be disjointed and imperfect ones , as half the circumftances must neceffarily escape him . He can ...
... object , but instantly directed to the prefent one , be it what it will . An abfent man can make but few obferva- tions and thofe will be disjointed and imperfect ones , as half the circumftances must neceffarily escape him . He can ...
35. oldal
... object . In fine , the education of monarchies requires a certain polite- nefs of behaviour . Man , a fociable animal , is formed to please in fociety ; and a perfon that would break through the rules of decency , fo as to shock those ...
... object . In fine , the education of monarchies requires a certain polite- nefs of behaviour . Man , a fociable animal , is formed to please in fociety ; and a perfon that would break through the rules of decency , fo as to shock those ...
45. oldal
... object till you have abfolutely conquered it , for that is in your power ; think of nothing elfe , read and fpeak for nothing elfe . Read aloud , though alone , and read articu- lately and diftinctly , as if you were reading in pub- lic ...
... object till you have abfolutely conquered it , for that is in your power ; think of nothing elfe , read and fpeak for nothing elfe . Read aloud , though alone , and read articu- lately and diftinctly , as if you were reading in pub- lic ...
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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.