This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.

Maria Theresa Luisa of Savoy, Princess de Lamballe (1749-1792) became the confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette. Catherine Hyde, called the "Marquise de Gouvion Broglie Scolari," purports to have collected, edited and annotated the private papers and letters of the princess. Hyde claims to have been the princess's secretary/confidante. The identity of Catherine herself is in question.

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Letters By Alfred The Great, Thomas Browne, Roger Ascham, John Arbuthnot; George Cascoigne, Lord Bolingbroke, Philip Sidney, Thomas Chatterton, John Selden, S. T. Coleridge. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

1901. Mirabeau, French revolutionary and political leader, was exiled to England in 1785. In 1786 he was sent to Prussia on a secret mission. He betrayed his government's trust by publishing his unedited reports to Paris, containing accounts of scandal and intrigue in the Prussian Court.

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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC KG (1694-1773) was a British statesman and man of letters.

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC KG (1694-1773) was a British statesman and man of letters.

1901. With writings by: Alfred the Great; Roger Ascham; George Gascoigne; Philip Sidney; John Selden; Thomas Browne; John Arbuthnot; Lord Bolingbroke; Thomas Chatterton; and S. T. Colerige. Leigh contributes a special introduction and biographical notes. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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LETTERS TO HIS SON BY THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD on the Fine Art of becoming a MAN OF THE WORLD and a GENTLEMAN IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I WITH TOPICAL HEADINGS AND A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY OLIVER H. 0. LEIGH h V, - n, i i 1 i v i wi . - i, . . . v, M., l - f, -, f M. WALTER DUNNE, PUBLISHER V V j - yr . Si JL 1 VV NEW YORK LONDON S. V-tt A - ru 1 - 1 -, r, Vv W, fe A W h fa tf COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY M WALTER DUNNE. PJBIISHER ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME I DR JOHNSON IN THE ANTEROOM OF LORD CHESTERFIELDS MANSION, . . Frontispiece Phologravuie after the painting by E M Ward, R A. AN AFFAIR OF HONOR ... ... 239 Photogravure after the original painting by J Munsch SPECIAL INTRODUCTION THB proud Lord Chesterfield would have turned in his grave had he known that he was to go down to pos terity as a teacher and preacher of the gospel of not grace, but the graces, the graces, the graces. Natural gifts, social status, open opportunities, and his ambition, all conspired to destine him for high states manship. If anything was lacking in his qualifications, he had the pluck and good sense to work hard and per sistently until the deficiency was made up. Something remained lacking, and not all his consummate mastery of arts could conceal that conspicuous want, the want of heart. Teacner and preacher he assuredly is, and long will be, yet no thanks are his due from a posterity of the common people whom he so sublimely despised. His pious mission was not to raise the level of the multitude, but to lift a single individual upon a pedestal so high that his lowly origin should not betray itself. That individual was his, Lord Chesterfields, illegitimate son, whose inferior blood should be given the true blue hue byconcentrating upon him all the externals of aristocratic education. Never had pupil so devoted, persistent, lavish, and bril liant a guide, philosopher, and friend, for the parental rela tion was shrewdly merged in these. Never were devotion and uphill struggle against doubts of success more bitterly repaid. Philip Stanhope was born in 1733, when his father was thirty-eight. He absorbed readily enough the solids of the ideal education supplied him, but, by perver sity of fate, he cared not a fig for the graces, the graces, the graces, which his father so wisely deemed by far the superior qualities to be cultivated by the budding courtier and statesman. A few years of minor services to his coun try were rendered, though Chesterfield was breaking his X CHESTERFIELDS LETTERS substitute for a heart because his son could not or would not play the superfine gentleman on the paternal model, and then came the news of his death, when only thirty, six. What was a still greater shock to the lordly father, now deaf, gouty, fretful, and at outs with the world, his informant reported that she had been secretly married for several years to Young Hopeful, and was left penniless with two boys. Lord Chesterfielji was above all things a practical philosopher, as hard and as exquisitely rounded and polished as a granite column. He accepted the van ishing of his lifelong dream with the admirable stolidity of a fatalist, and in those last days of his radically arti ficial life he disclosed a welcome tenderness, a touch of the divine, none the less so for being common duty, shown in the few brief letters to his sons widow and to our boys. This, and his enviable gift of being able to view the downs as well asthe ups of life in the consoling humorous light, must modify the sterner judgment so easily passed upon his characteristic inculcation, if not practice, of heartless ness. The thirteenth-century mother church in the town from which Lord Chesterfields title came has a peculiar steeple, graceful in its lines, but it points askew, from whatever quarter it is seen. The writer of these Letters, which he never dreamed would be published, is the best self - portrayed Gentleman in literature...

Letters By Alfred The Great, Thomas Browne, Roger Ascham, John Arbuthnot; George Cascoigne, Lord Bolingbroke, Philip Sidney, Thomas Chatterton, John Selden, S. T. Coleridge. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

1901. Mirabeau, French revolutionary and political leader, was exiled to England in 1785. In 1786 he was sent to Prussia on a secret mission. He betrayed his government's trust by publishing his unedited reports to Paris, containing accounts of scandal and intrigue in the Prussian Court.

1901. With writings by: Alfred the Great; Roger Ascham; George Gascoigne; Philip Sidney; John Selden; Thomas Browne; John Arbuthnot; Lord Bolingbroke; Thomas Chatterton; and S. T. Colerige. Leigh contributes a special introduction and biographical notes. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.