Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Dormer Stanhope   -  Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019  - 

Methodised And Digested Under Distinct Heads, With Additions, By The Rev. Dr. John Trusler: Containing Every Instruction Necessary To Complete The Gentleman And Man Of Fashion; To Teach Him A Knowledge Of Life, And Make Him Well Received In All Companies. The two parts of this work, which have heretofore been printed separate, are now offered to the Public in one volume, as a system of polite and moral instruction for both sexes: This edition is critically corrected, with the special design of furnishing English schools, at a small expence, with a proper book for reading and parsing their own language, that the teacher may be provided with suitable means for mending the manners of his pupils, while he informs their understandings, by analyzing the grammatical construction, and pointing out the beauties of the most approved style. Contents Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world, by the late Lord Chesterfield (edited by the Rev. Dr. John Trusler) -- A father's legacy to his daughters, by the late Dr. Gregory, of Edinburgh.  

The Best Letters of Lord Chesterfield: Letters to His Son, and Letters to His Godson. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Dormer Stanhope   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

IN summarizing the character of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Lecky the historian describes him as a man Of delicate but fastidious taste, low moral principle, and hard, keen, and worldly wisdom and this estimate, with an undue stress upon low\moral principle, fairly expresses the conventional idea Of the brilliant eighteenth cen tury statesman and wit. It may be said of Lord Chesterfield and it is a rather uncommon thing to say of one of his countrymen — that his reputation has suffered more from his preaching than from his practice. Weighed fairly in the balance with his contemporaries and co-equals, he loses in great measure the invidious distinction usually bestowed upon him and those conversant with his philosophy will readily conjecture that had he intended his preaching for the morally-sensitive ear of the British public, he would have more carefully observed his own organic maxim, Le Grand Art, et le plus necessaire de tous, c'est L 'art (ie Plaz're.

The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield: Including Numerous Letters Now First Published From the Original Manuscripts; Letters on Education. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Dormer Stanhope   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Teacher and preacher he assuredly is, and long will be, yet no thanks are his due from a posterity of the common people whom he so sublimely despised. His pious mission was not to raise the level of the multitude, but to lift a single individual upon a pedestal so high that his lowly ongin should not betray itself. That individual was his, Lord Chesterfield's, illegitimate son, whose inferior blood should be given the true blue hue by concentrating upon him all the externals of aristocratic education.