Practical Morality, or a Guide to Men and Manners: Consisting of Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Philip Dormer Stanhope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0483510599 ISBN 13: 9780483510593

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Practical Morality, or a Guide to Men and Manners: Consisting of Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son

That nothing might be wanting to render the fol lowing work complete, the Precepts of Lord Burgh ley_ to his Son are added, as highly estimable on the subjects of manners and education. The most'or dinary sentiments of So dignified a character - ac qu1re weight; but when a series of well-digested precepts, the result of great knowledge and exten sive experience, are delivered for the guidc of a son in the momentous concerns of life and happy mess, the preceptor claims our esteem, and his Opinions our reverence.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0483510599
• ISBN 13: 9780483510593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 283