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Lord Chesterfield and His World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

Lord Chesterfield and His World

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Lord Chesterfield
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Lord Chesterfield

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This enjoyable narrative weaves together a new examination of one of the eighteenth century's leading figures with some of Chesterfield's finest and most entertaining prose which has been either out of print or never before published. It includes a scandalous essay of which only a fragment has appeared before on the mistresses and sexual tastes of George II. Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, is generally remembered (or forgotten) for letters to his illegitimate son, indiscreetly published in the year after his death. In much of this book, Colin Franklin is more concerned with a series of Characters - the modern word is Profiles - which Chesterfield wrote privately about those eminent contemporaries he had known intimately, from the King and Queen to such figures as Walpole, Newcastle, Pitt, Bolingbroke, Arbuthnot and Pope. The publishing history of Chesterfield's letters and dramatic survival of the Characters (which were intended for oblivion) is traced and told. The author also takes a new look at the character of Lord Chesterfield, finding him more vulnerable and deserving of sympathy than the conventionally accepted verdict.

Lord Chesterfield's Letters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

Lord Chesterfield's Letters

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-09-10
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

`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 Chesterfiel...

Lord Chesterfield's Letters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

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, Addison, and Swift. The letters reveal Chesterfiel...

The Works of Lord Chesterfield
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 774

The Works of Lord Chesterfield

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1838
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Letters of Lord Chesterfield to Lord Huntingdon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

The Letters of Lord Chesterfield to Lord Huntingdon

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1923
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Life of Lord Chesterfield
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Life of Lord Chesterfield

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1907
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1891
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Life of Lord Chesterfield
  • Language: en

Life of Lord Chesterfield

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1892
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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