 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1839 - 646 páginas
...please. As is acknowledged by himself — " Call it vanity, " if you will — and possibly it was so; but my " great object was to make every man I met...often succeeded, " but why ? By taking great pains." t But these more superficial graces and accomplishments were, it speedily appeared, supported by what... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 páginas
...please. As is acknowledged by himself— " Call it vanity, if you will— and possibly it " was so ; but my great object was to make every man I met- like...often succeeded, but why ? " By taking great pains (3). But these more superficial graces and accomplishments were, it speedily appeared, supported by... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 páginas
...conversational powers appear to have been of a high order. " My great object," he writes to his son, " was to make every man I met like me, and every woman love me." A contemporary writer observes, — " The most barren subjects grow fruitful under his culture, and... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1847 - 574 páginas
...vanity if you please, and possibly it was so ; but my great object was to make every man I met with like me, and every woman love me. I often succeeded ; but why ? By taking great pains ; for otherwise I never should ; my figure by no means entitled me to it, and I had certainly an up-hill... | |
 | 1853 - 582 páginas
...literature of the quarter, that Lord Mahon's edition of the works* of that fine gentleman, who said, " My great object was to make every man I met like me, and every woman love me," is now concluded. The editor has completed his task very creditably. In a preface of thirty pages,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 452 páginas
...I met like me, and every woman love " me. I often succeeded, but why ? By taking great " pains." f But these more superficial graces and accomplishments...of reading. " Nobody," says he to his son, " ever 6 lent themselves more than I did, when I was young, to 4 the pleasures and dissipation of good company... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 458 páginas
...please. As is acknowledged by himself — " Call it vanity, if you will " — and possibly it was so ; but my great object was to " make every man I met...often succeeded, but why ? By taking great " pains." f But these more superficial graces and accomplishments were, it speedily appeared, supported by what... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 634 páginas
...please. As is .acknowledged by himself — " Call it vanity, if you will — and possibly " it was so ; but my great object was to make " every man I met...often succeeded, but why ? By " taking great pains." f But these more superficial graces and accomplishments were, it speedily appeared, supported by what... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 páginas
...vanity, if you please, and possibly it was so ; but my great object was to make every man 1 met with like me, and every woman love me. I often succeeded ; but why ? By taking great pains, for otherwise 1 never should ; my figure by no means entitled me to it; and I had certainly an up-hill... | |
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Call it vanity, if you please, and possibly it was so ; but my great object was to make every man I met with like me, and every woman love me I often succeeded ; but why ? By taking great pains... 
