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    Letters to His Son, 1759-65: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
    Letters to His Son, 1759-65: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
    Letters to His Son, 1759-65: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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    Letters to His Son, 1759-65: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

    By Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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    'Letters to His Son' is a publication of letters written by Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, a British statesman, diplomat, and man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time. Eugenia Stanhope, the widow of Chesterfield's illegitimate son, Philip Stanhope, was the author of the book, which comprises a thirty-year correspondence in more than 400 letters. Begun in 1737 and continued until the death of his son in 1768, Chesterfield wrote mostly instructive communications about geography, history, and classical literature, with later letters focusing on politics and diplomacy. The letters themselves were written in French, English and Latin to refine his son's grasp of the languages.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateApr 25, 2021
    ISBN4064066207991
    Letters to His Son, 1759-65: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

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      Letters to His Son, 1759-65 - Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

      Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield

      Letters to His Son, 1759-65

      On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066207991

      Table of Contents

      LETTER CCXXXVII

      LETTER CCXXXVIII

      LETTER CCXXXIX

      LETTER CCXL

      LETTER CCXLI

      LETTER CCXLII

      LETTER CCXLIII

      LETTER CCXLIV

      LETTER CCXLV

      LETTER CCXLVI

      LETTER CCXLVIII

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      LETTER CCL

      LETTER CCLI

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      LETTER CCLV

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      LETTER CCLVII

      LETTER CCLVIII

      LETTER CCLIX

      LETTER CCLX

      LETTER CCLXI

      LETTER CCLXII

      LETTER CCLXIII

      LETTER CCLXIV

      LETTER CCLXV

      LETTER CCLXVI

      LETTER CCLXVII

      LETTER CCLXVIII

      LETTER CCLXIX

      LETTER CCLXX

      LETTER CCLXXI

      LETTER CCLXXII

      LETTER CCLXXIII

      LETTER CCLXXIV

      LETTER CCLXXV

      LETTER CCLXXVI

      LETTER CCLXXVII

      LETTER CCLXXVIII

      LETTER CCLXXIX

      LETTER CCLXXX

      LETTER CCLXXXI

      LETTER CCLXXXII

      LETTER CCLXXXIII

      LETTER CCXXXVII

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      LONDON, New-year's Day, 1759

      MY DEAR FRIEND: 'Molti e felici', and I have done upon that subject, one truth being fair, upon the most lying day in the whole year.

      I have now before me your last letter of the 21st December, which I am glad to find is a bill of health: but, however, do not presume too much upon it, but obey and honor your physician, that thy days may be long in the land.

      Since my last, I have heard nothing more concerning the ribband; but I take it for granted it will be disposed of soon. By the way, upon reflection, I am not sure that anybody but a knight can, according to form, be employed to make a knight. I remember that Sir Clement Cotterel was sent to Holland, to dub the late Prince of Orange, only because he was a knight himself; and I know that the proxies of knights, who cannot attend their own installations, must always be knights. This did not occur to me before, and perhaps will not to the person who was to recommend you: I am sure I will not stir it; and I only mention it now, that you may be in all events prepared for the disappointment, if it should happen.

      G——-is exceedingly flattered with your account, that three thousand of his countrymen; all as little as himself, should be thought a sufficient guard upon three-and-twenty thousand of all the nations in Europe; not that he thinks himself, by any means, a little man, for when he would describe a tall handsome man, he raises himself up at least half an inch to represent him.

      The private news from Hamburg is, that his Majesty's Resident there is woundily in love with Madame———-; if this be true, God send him, rather than her, a good DELIVERY! She must be 'etrennee' at this season, and therefore I think you should be so too: so draw upon me as soon as you please, for one hundred pounds.

      Here is nothing new, except the unanimity with which the parliament gives away a dozen of millions sterling; and the unanimity of the public is as great in approving of it, which has stifled the usual political and polemical argumentations.

      Cardinal Bernis's disgrace is as sudden, and hitherto as little understood, as his elevation was. I have seen his poems, printed at Paris, not by a friend, I dare say; and to judge by them, I humbly conceive his Eminency is a p——-y. I will say nothing of that excellent headpiece that made him and unmade him in the same month, except O KING, LIVE FOREVER.

      Good-night to you, whoever you pass it with.

      LETTER CCXXXVIII

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      LONDON, February 2, 1759

      MY DEAR FRIEND: I am now (what I have very seldom been) two letters in your debt: the reason was, that my head, like many other heads, has frequently taken a wrong turn; in which case, writing is painful to me, and therefore cannot be very pleasant to my readers.

      I wish you would (while you have so good an opportunity as you have at Hamburg) make yourself perfectly master of that dull but very useful knowledge, the course of exchange, and the causes of its almost perpetual variations; the value and relation of different coins, the specie, the banco, usances, agio, and a thousand other particulars. You may with ease learn, and you will be very glad when you have learned them; for, in your business, that sort of knowledge will often prove necessary.

      I hear nothing more of Prince Ferdinand's garter: that he will have one is very certain; but when, I believe, is very uncertain; all the other postulants wanting to be dubbed at the same time, which cannot be, as there is not ribband enough for them.

      If the Russians move in time, and in earnest, there will be an end of our hopes and of our armies in Germany: three such mill-stones as Russia, France, and Austria, must, sooner or later, in the course of the year, grind his Prussian Majesty down to a mere MARGRAVE of Brandenburg. But I have always some hopes of a change under a 'Gunarchy'—[Derived from the Greek word 'Iuvn' a woman, and means female government]—where whim and humor commonly prevail, reason very seldom, and

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