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Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1766-71 by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
LETTER CCLXXXIV
London, February 11, 1766
My Dear friend: I received two
days ago your letter of the 25th past; and your former,
which you mention in it, but ten days ago; this may
easily be acc...
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Biographies (1)
Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, was perhaps the politest man in an age that took its manners seriously and one of the wittiest in an age that specialized in that rare, volatile, a...
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