Letters, Sentences, and MaximsPutnam, 1888 - 327 páginas |
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... sense and knowledge of life and business , and certainly nothing can be more attractive than the style in which they are set before their readers . " - Quarterly Review , vol . lxxvi . , 1845 . " Lord Chesterfield's letters are , I will ...
... sense and knowledge of life and business , and certainly nothing can be more attractive than the style in which they are set before their readers . " - Quarterly Review , vol . lxxvi . , 1845 . " Lord Chesterfield's letters are , I will ...
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... sense a gentleman ; Mademoiselle , or , as she was called , Madame de Bouchet , was always treated with distin- guished politeness , and when he died he left her a legacy as some slight recompense for the injury he had done her . He ...
... sense a gentleman ; Mademoiselle , or , as she was called , Madame de Bouchet , was always treated with distin- guished politeness , and when he died he left her a legacy as some slight recompense for the injury he had done her . He ...
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... sense which rarely abandons men of wit on the other side of the Straits , he felt the imprudences of Voltaire , and disapproved of them . When he was old , and living in retirement , he wrote to a French lady on the subject thus ...
... sense which rarely abandons men of wit on the other side of the Straits , he felt the imprudences of Voltaire , and disapproved of them . When he was old , and living in retirement , he wrote to a French lady on the subject thus ...
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... , almost , to have totally failed , and to have only succeeded in making an original in the inverse sense , rather than with so much care and expense to have produced nothing more than an ordinary andX insignificant man of 22 Critical ...
... , almost , to have totally failed , and to have only succeeded in making an original in the inverse sense , rather than with so much care and expense to have produced nothing more than an ordinary andX insignificant man of 22 Critical ...
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... sense , the manners and politeness of his country , has attained the perfection of human nature . " He unites sufficiently well in himself the advan- tages of the two nations , with one character- istic which belongs exclusively to his ...
... sense , the manners and politeness of his country , has attained the perfection of human nature . " He unites sufficiently well in himself the advan- tages of the two nations , with one character- istic which belongs exclusively to his ...
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Página 148 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company, — this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.
Página 107 - Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket : and do not pull it out and strike it ; merely to show that you have one.
Página 264 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 146 - People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends ; and there is a Spanish proverb, which says very justly, Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.
Página 277 - I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well, I do not love thee. Dr. Fell.
Página 221 - And as laws are enacted to enforce good morals, or at least to prevent the ill effects of bad ones, so there are certain rules of civility, universally implied and received, to enforce good manners, and punish bad ones. And indeed there seems to me to be less difference, both between the crimes and punishments, than at first one would imagine.
Página 243 - Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief.
Página 234 - Style is the dress of thoughts ; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would, if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. It is not every understanding that can judge of matter...
Página 108 - True wit, or sense, never yet made anybody laugh; they are above it: they please the mind, and give a cheerfulness to the countenance. But it is low buffoonery, or silly accidents, that always excite laughter; and that is what people of sense and breeding should show themselves above.
Página 27 - Human nature is the same all over the world ; but its operations are so varied by education and habit, that one must see it in all its dresses, in order to be intimately acquainted with it.