Download or read book Lord Chesterfield s Letters written by Lord Chesterfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `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 country had `always been goverened by the only two or three people, out of two or three millions, totally incapable of governing', as well as his views on good breeding. Not originally intended for publication, this entertaining correspondence illuminates fascinating aspects of eighteenth-century life and manners. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentlman written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentlman written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters to His Son written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters to His Son 1766 71 written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugenia Stanhope, the impoverished widow of the illegitimate son of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, was the first to publish the book 'Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman' which comprises a thirty-year correspondence in more than 400 letters. Begun in 1737 and continued until the death of his son in 1768, the Earl wrote mostly instructive communications about geography, history, and classical literature, with later letters focusing on politics and diplomacy, and the letters themselves were written in French, English and Latin to refine his son's grasp of the languages. As a handbook for worldly success in the 18th century, the book gives perceptive and nuanced advice for how a gentleman should interpret the social codes that are manners.
Download or read book Lord Chesterfield s Advice to His Son on Men and Manners written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from a Self made Merchant to His Son written by George Horace Lorimer and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters to His Son written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters to His Son 1750 written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to His Son, 1750 is a collection of letters by Philip Dormer Stanhope. Stanhope was a British statesman, civil servant, and man of letters, and an admired wit of his time. Excerpt: "How go, your pleasures at Rome? Are you in fashion there? that is, do you live with the people who are?—the only way of being so yourself, in time. Are you domestic enough in any considerable house to be called 'le petit Stanhope'? Has any woman of fashion and good-breeding taken the trouble of abusing and laughing at you amicably to your face? Have you found a good 'decrotteuse'. For those are the steps by which you must rise to politeness. I do not presume to ask if you have any attachment, because I believe you will not make me your confident; but this I will say, eventually, that if you have one, 'il faut bien payer d'attentions et de petits soin', if you would have your sacrifice propitiously received. Women are not so much taken by beauty as men are, but prefer those men who show them the most attention."
Download or read book Letters to His Son written by Earl of Earl of Chesterfield and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to his Son On the Fine Art of becoming a Man Of The World and a Gentleman By the Earl of Chesterfield The proud Lord Chesterfield would have turned in his grave had he known that he was to go down to posterity as a teacher and preacher of the gospel of not grace, but--"the graces, the graces, the graces." Natural gifts, social status, open opportunities, and his ambition, all conspired to destine him for high statesmanship. If anything was lacking in his qualifications, he had the pluck and good sense to work hard and persistently until the deficiency was made up. Something remained lacking, and not all his consummate mastery of arts could conceal that conspicuous want,--the want of heart. 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 origin 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. Never had pupil so devoted, persistent, lavish, and brilliant a guide, philosopher, and friend, for the parental relation was shrewdly merged in these. Never were devotion and uphill struggle against doubts of success more bitterly repaid. Philip Stanhope was born in 1732, when his father was thirty-eight. He absorbed readily enough the solids of the ideal education supplied him, but, by perversity of fate, he cared not a fig for "the graces, the graces, the graces," which his father so wisely deemed by far the superior qualities to be cultivated by the budding courtier and statesman. A few years of minor services to his country were rendered, though Chesterfield was breaking his substitute for a heart because his son could not or would not play the superfine gentleman--on the paternal model, and then came the news of his death, when only thirty-six. What was a still greater shock to the lordly father, now deaf, gouty, fretful, and at outs with the world, his informant reported that she had been secretly married for several years to Young Hopeful, and was left penniless with two boys. Lord Chesterfield was above all things a practical philosopher, as hard and as exquisitely rounded and polished as a granite column. He accepted the vanishing of his lifelong dream with the admirable stolidity of a fatalist, and in those last days of his radically artificial life he disclosed a welcome tenderness, a touch of the divine, none the less so for being common duty, shown in the few brief letters to his son's widow and to "our boys." This, and his enviable gift of being able to view the downs as well as the ups of life in the consoling humorous light, must modify the sterner judgment so easily passed upon his characteristic inculcation, if not practice, of heartlessness.
Download or read book Letters of Note written by Shaun Usher and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.
Download or read book Letters to His Son Complete written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to His Son is a book by Philip Dormer Stanhope. It contains instructive communications about geography, history, and classical literature, with later letters focusing on politics and diplomacy; all addressed to his son.
Download or read book Letters to His Son 1759 65 written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Letters to His Son' is a publication of letters written by Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, a British statesman, diplomat, and man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time. Eugenia Stanhope, the widow of Chesterfield's illegitimate son, Philip Stanhope, was the author of the book, which comprises a thirty-year correspondence in more than 400 letters. Begun in 1737 and continued until the death of his son in 1768, Chesterfield wrote mostly instructive communications about geography, history, and classical literature, with later letters focusing on politics and diplomacy. The letters themselves were written in French, English and Latin to refine his son's grasp of the languages.
Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Download or read book Letters to His Son written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (Ear and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Letters To His Son: On The Fine Art Of Becoming A Man Of The World And A Gentleman; Universal Classics Library; Letters To His Son: On The Fine Art Of Becoming A Man Of The World And A Gentleman; Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh; Volume 2 Of Letters To His Son; Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (Earl of) Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh null M. W. Dunne, 1901 Conduct of life
Download or read book Letters to His Son 1748 written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, is a timeless classic, focusing on ethics and the art of living. Chesterfield's wisdom and guidance shine through, providing readers with invaluable life lessons in this literary masterpiece.
Download or read book Letters to His Son 1746 47 written by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Letters to His Son' is a timeless collection of letters from the Earl of Chesterfield, offering practical advice on how to become a man of the world and a gentleman. Though Lord Chesterfield was a proud aristocrat, he devoted himself to teaching his illegitimate son the art of aristocratic education. Through his letters, he emphasizes the importance of the "graces," or the externalities of good breeding, while also stressing the importance of truthfulness and honor. While some may criticize his teachings as heartless, his honesty about the realities of social climbing, dissimulation, and gossip make his letters compelling reading.
