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In a review of the translation of the celebrated Letters of Lord Chesterfield whom he calls the La Rochefoucauld of England he refers to, and in part quotes, the passages in which Chesterfield gives his son advice as to his liaisons; and he adds: "All Chesterfield's morality, on this head, is resumed in a line of Voltaire, "Il n'est jamais de mal en bonne compagnie."
Johnson declined Lord Chesterfield's belated offer of patronage: "Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?" It is clear, however, that Lord Lawrence waited to see whether that success was well assured before the offer was made.
It is a treatise on the duties of a gentleman "the noblest present", says a modern writer, "ever made by parent to a child". Written in a far higher tone than Lord Chesterfield's letters, though treating of the same subject, it proposes and answers multifarious questions which must occur continually to the modern Christian as well as to the ancient philosopher.
I am not inclined to believe above half what the world says, according to Lord Chesterfield's allowance for scandalous stories; but it may be necessary to warn you, as you seem very young, that " "Madam," cried Angelina, "young as I am, I know that superior genius and virtue are the inevitable objects of scandal. It is in vain to detain me further." "I am truly sorry for it," said Mrs.
He died, it is supposed, of a broken heart; and was buried at the charge of his honest printer, Richard Franklin. LORD CHESTERFIELD'S CHARACTERS REVIEWED, p. 42. I have now given in the text the full name of this gallant and excellent man, and proceed to copy the account of his remarkable conversion, as related by Dr. Doddridge.
Lord Chesterfield's Letters appeared for the first time in 1774, and the sensation they produced was exactly such as would tempt a writer in quest of popular subjects to avail himself of it.
"Ha, ha," interrupted Randal, with the low soft laugh by which occasionally he infringed upon Lord Chesterfield's recommendations to shun a merriment so natural as to be illbred, "ha, ha, you have the fault of all observers too minute and refined. "How?"
Homer himself has never yet entirely recovered from the injury he received by Lord Chesterfield's remark that the speeches of his heroes were frequently exceedingly low.
Chesterfield, who was flattered with this discourse, promised him his protection with greater sincerity than it had been demanded: Hamilton, therefore, was no further embarrassed than to preserve Lady Chesterfield's reputation, who, in his opinion, declared herself rather too openly in his favour: but whilst he was diligently employed in regulating, within the rules of discretion, the partiality she expressed for him, and in conjuring her to restrain her glances within bounds, she was receiving those of the Duke of York; and, what is more, made them favourable returns.
The Earl of Chesterfield's letters to his son define the purpose of a foreign education with a freedom which is lacking in the book of a governor who writes for the public eye. Though the contents of the letters are familiar to everyone, their connection with travel for "cultum animi" has hitherto, I think, been overlooked.
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