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Letters to His Son, Complete

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

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Thirty years of letters in one sweep: the complete Chesterfield, from the schoolboy lessons of 1746 to the final notes of the 1770s. The whole famous curriculum in manners, knowledge of the world, and the art of pleasing, plus a special introduction. Praised, attacked, and pillaged for quotations ever since. The full education, unabridged.

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620 chapters

  1. 1LETTERS TO HIS SON
  2. 2on the Fine Art of becoming a MAN OF THE WORLD and a GENTLEMAN
  3. 3SPECIAL INTRODUCTION
  4. 41746-1747
  5. 5LETTER II
  6. 6LETTER III
  7. 7LONDON, December 2, O.S. 1746.
  8. 8LETTER IV
  9. 9LONDON, December 9, O. S. 1746.
  10. 10LETTER V
  11. 11LONDON, February 24, O. S. 1747
  12. 12LETTER VI
  13. 13LONDON, March 6, O. S. 1747
  14. 14LETTER VII
  15. 15LONDON, March 27, O. S. 1747.
  16. 16LETTER VIII
  17. 17LONDON, April 3, O. S. 1747
  18. 18LETTER IX

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