Letters to His Son, Complete / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a GentlemanPhilip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
Letters to His Son, Complete / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
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Book language: English
738 pages
Letters to His Son is a collection of epistolary advice from Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son. Written in the eighteenth century, it discusses education, manners, social conduct, and the arts of conversation and worldly success. It is worth listening to for its polished prose and its vivid picture of aristocratic ideals and gentlemanly conduct.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
LETTERS TO HIS SON By the EARL OF CHESTERFIELD on the Fine Art of becoming a MAN OF THE WORLD and a GENTLEMAN
PG Editor’s Notes: O. S. and N. S.: On consultation with several specialists I have learned that the abbreviations O. S. and N. S. relate to the difference between the old Julian calender used in England and the Gregorian calender which was the standard in Europe. In the mid 18th century it is said that this once amounted to a difference of eleven days. To keep track of the chronology of letters back and forth from England to France or other countries in mainland Europe, Chesterfield inserted in dates the designation O. S. (old style) and N. S. (new style). Chesterfield demonstrates his classical education by frequent words and sometimes entire paragraphs in various languages. In the 1901 text these were in italics; in this etext edition I have substituted single quotation marks around these, as in ‘bon mot’, and not attempted to include the various accent marks of all the languages. Only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. The original and occasionally variable spelling is retained throughout. D.W.
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