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Oxford University Press, USA (1993), Edition: annotated edition, Paperback, 480 pages
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`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 th
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LibraryThing member carterchristian1
I have been thinking abour writing a series of advice letters to grandchildren,great grandchildren.....daughters will not pay any attention, but might read them after I am dead.....and Chseterfirld is RIGHT ON...and the topics ever timeley...chosing asouse, debt (do not gamble....thiis he will no
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subsidize, suggestings on reading the classices...looking for mentors both men and women, accepting advice....a very modern. Terrific book, even for today. Show Less
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1774
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480 p.; 7.64 inches
ISBN
0192828649 / 9780192828644
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