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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 …we should be as easy and natural as if we had no clothes on at all.   High-res

Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815

…we should be as easy and natural as if we had no clothes on at all.

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 cannot likewise avoid calling playing upon any musical instrument illiberal in a gentleman. Music is usually...   High-res

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 cannot likewise avoid calling playing upon any musical instrument illiberal in a gentleman.

Music is usually reconed one of the liberal arts, and not unjustly; but a man of fashion who is seen piping or fiddling at a concert degrades his own dignity.

If you love music, hear it; pay fiddlers to play to you, but never fiddle yourself.

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...   High-res

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.

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...   High-res

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.