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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
For example: if, instead of saying that “tastes are different, and that every man has his own peculiar one,” you should let off a proverb, and say, that “what is one man’s meat is another man’s poison:” or else, “everyone as they like, as the good man said when he kissed his cow” everybody would be persuaded that you had never kept company with anybody above footmen and house-maids.
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education,
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
I would rather be in company with a dead man, than with an absent one: for if the dead man affords me no pleasure, at least he shews me no contempt; whereas the absent man very plainly, though silently, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
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Poughkeepsie Journal, New York, August 7 1816
Ladies who are accustomed to wear their dresses extremely low in the back and bosom or off the shoulders, are particularly requested to beware of a person who has for some time past frequented all places of public amusement, and many private parties.
…when he observes a lady dressed in the manner above described, is, with an almost imperceptible and apparently accidental pressure of a little instrument which he carries in his hand, to imprint the following words upon her back or shoulders - Naked, but not ashamed.
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Poughkeepsie Journal, New York, August 7 1816
ONE CENT REWARD
Runaway from the subscriber, on Monday last, James Wiley, an indented apprentice to the Shoe making business. The above reward will be given to any person who will return said runaway to his master, but no charges paid.
N.B. All persons are forbid trusting, harboring or employing him under penalty of the law.
Gideon Wooley.
Poughkeepsie Journal, New York, June 26, 1816
The wedding of Princess Charlotte of Wales and Leopold I of Belgium was quite rowdy!
…he was assailed by numbers of females patting him on the back, and calling blessings on him, &.; this gave a number of men, in the delay thus occasioned, an opportunity to take the traces from the carriage, and draw him without horses…
Princess Charlotte, with Leopold as her consort, would have been Queen of England upon the death of her father (instead of her cousin, Victoria), if she hadn’t died during childbirth to a stillborn son the year after her wedding.
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Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence, London, 1811
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Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence, London, 1811
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Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence, London, 1811