THE BEAUTIES OF CHESTERFIELD, CONSISTING OF SELECTIONS FROM HIS WORKS. BY ALFRED HOWARD, ESQ. FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY CHARLES EWER, No. 141 Washington Street. + save them: his legs and arms, by his awkward management of them, seem to have undergone the Question extraordinaire; and his head, always hanging upon one or other of his shoulders, seems to have received the first stroke upon a block. I sincerely value and esteem him for his parts, learning, and virtue; but, for the soul of me, I cannot love him in company. INDISPENSABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. I here subjoin a list of all those necessary, ornamental accomplishments (without which no man living can either please, or rise in the world), which hitherto I fear you want, and which only require your care and attention to possess. To speak elegantly, whatever language you speak in without which nobody will hear you with pleasure, and consequently you will speak to very little purpose. An agreeable and distinct elocution; with-out which nobody will hear you with patience. This every body may acquire, who is not born with some imperfection in the organs of speech. You are not; and therefore it is wholly in your power. You need take much less pains for it than Demosthenes did. A distinguished politeness of manners and address; which common sense, observation, good company, and imitation, will infallibly give you, if you will accept of it. A genteel carriage and graceful motions, with the air of a man of fashion. A good cancing-master, with some care on your part, and some imitation of those who excel, will soon bring this about. To be extremely clean in your person, and perfectly well dressed, according to the fashion, be that what it will. Your negligence of dress, while you were a school-boy, was pardonable, but would not be so now. Upon the whole, take it for granted, that, without these accomplishments, all you know, and all you can do, will avail very little. AFFECTATION IN THE MALE SEX. Monsieur de la Rochefoucault very justly observes, that people are never ridiculous from their real, but from their affected characters: they cannot help being what they are, but they can help attempting to appear what they are not. A hump-back is by no means ridiculous, unless it be under a fine coat; nor a weak understanding, unless it assumes the lustre and ornaments of a bright one. Good nature conceals and pities the inevitable defects of body or mind, but is not obliged to treat acquired ones with the least indulgence. Those who would pass upon the world talents which they have not, are as guilty, in the common course of society, as those who, in the way of trade, would put off false money, knowing it to |