Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners: Consisting of Lord Chesterfields' Advice to His Son ; to which is Added, a Supplement Containing Extracts from Various Books, Recommended by Lord Chesterfield to Mr. Stanhope ; Together with The Polite Philosopher, Or an Essay on the Art which Makes a Man Happy in Himself, and Agreeable to Others ; to which is Added, Dr. Blair's Advice to Youth, Dr. Fordyce On Honour as a Principle, Lord Burghley's Ten Precepts to His Son, Dr. Franklin's Way to Wealth, and Pope's Universal PrayerJ. Walker, 1813 - 255 pages |
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... mind and fashion the manners ' of youth , are too universally admired to need encomium . In the Advice of that noble Earl to his Son , there are to be found such judi- cious remarks on men , manners , and things , con- nected with so ...
... mind and fashion the manners ' of youth , are too universally admired to need encomium . In the Advice of that noble Earl to his Son , there are to be found such judi- cious remarks on men , manners , and things , con- nected with so ...
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... equally skilled in books and in men , in the dead languages and the living ; and his observations will be generally found true , and his maxims just . LORD CHESTERFIELD'S ADVICE TO HIS SON . ABSENCE OF MIND viii ADVERTISEMENT .
... equally skilled in books and in men , in the dead languages and the living ; and his observations will be generally found true , and his maxims just . LORD CHESTERFIELD'S ADVICE TO HIS SON . ABSENCE OF MIND viii ADVERTISEMENT .
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... MIND . AN absent man is generally either a very weak or a very affected man ; he is , however , a very disagreeable man in company . He is defective in all the common offices of civility ; he does not en- ter into the general ...
... MIND . AN absent man is generally either a very weak or a very affected man ; he is , however , a very disagreeable man in company . He is defective in all the common offices of civility ; he does not en- ter into the general ...
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... mind , I choose to be absent in body ; for it is almost impossible for me to stay in the room , as I cannot stand inattention and awkward- ness . I would rather be in company with a dead man , than with an absent one ; for if the dead ...
... mind , I choose to be absent in body ; for it is almost impossible for me to stay in the room , as I cannot stand inattention and awkward- ness . I would rather be in company with a dead man , than with an absent one ; for if the dead ...
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... mind a problem in Euclid , he would be a very bad rather than where he now is ; and therefore ap- pears sick of the conversation and amusements of the present company . And , certainly , let a man be ever so much in- clined to gaping ...
... mind a problem in Euclid , he would be a very bad rather than where he now is ; and therefore ap- pears sick of the conversation and amusements of the present company . And , certainly , let a man be ever so much in- clined to gaping ...
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