Lord Chesterfield's Letters by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chester... - 9780199554843
Lord Chesterfield's LettersAuthor(s): Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, David Roberts
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom
Imprint: Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 9780199554843, 978-0199554843
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`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, providing him with instruction in etiquette and the worldly arts. Praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching `the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master', these letters reflect the political craft of a leading statesman and the urbane wit of a man who associated with Pope, Addison, and Swift. The letters reveal Chesterfield's political cynicism and his belief that his coun.
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Lord Chesterfield's LettersAuthor(s): Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, David Roberts
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom
Imprint: Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 9780199554843, 978-0199554843
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`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, providing him with instruction in etiquette and the worldly arts. Praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching `the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master', these letters reflect the political craft of a leading statesman and the urbane wit of a man who associated with Pope, Addison, and Swift. The letters reveal Chesterfield's political cynicism and his belief that his coun.
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Lord Chesterfield's LettersAuthor(s): Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, David Roberts
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom
Imprint: Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 9780199554843, 978-0199554843
Synopsis
`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, providing him with instruction in etiquette and the worldly arts. Praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching `the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master', these letters reflect the political craft of a leading statesman and the urbane wit of a man who associated with Pope, Addison, and Swift. The letters reveal Chesterfield's political cynicism and his belief that his coun.
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