Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son and Godson, Selected: With Introduction, Biographical Sketch, and Notes (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

Henry H. Belfield

 
9780331542332: Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son and Godson, Selected: With Introduction, Biographical Sketch, and Notes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lord Chesterfield''s Letters to His Son and Godson, Selected: With Introduction, Biographical Sketch, and Notes

I will, therefore, suppose for argument''s sake (for upon no other account can it be supposed) that all the vices above mentioned were perfectly innocent in themselves they would still degrade, vilify, and sink those who practiced them would obstruct their rising in the world, by debasing their characters; and give them a low turn of mind and manners, absolutely inconsistent with their making any figure in upper life, and great business.

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