Lord Chesterfield's Letters
`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, Ad…
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Weitere Autoren: Roberts, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-160590-1
- EAN: 9780191605901
- Produktnummer: 13995905
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'175 KB
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