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Letters, sentences and maxims

Earl of Chesterfield and Charles Sayle Philip Dormer Stanhope

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Chesterfield distilled: the letters in selection, followed by his sentences and maxims, with a critical essay on the man appended. For readers who want the wit and worldly wisdom without thirty years of correspondence, the maxims alone repay the price of admission. Aphorisms from England's smoothest statesman. The concentrate, not the whole vintage.

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14 chapters

  1. 1Letters, Sentences and Maxims, by Lord Chesterfield
  2. 2PREFATORY NOTE.
  3. 3I.
  4. 4II.
  5. 5III.
  6. 6IV.
  7. 7V.
  8. 8CRITICAL ESSAY.
  9. 9LORD CHESTERFIELD’S LETTERS, SENTENCES, AND MAXIMS.
  10. 10MAXIMS.56
  11. 11POLITICAL MAXIMS FROM CARDINAL DE RETZ.57
  12. 12LORD CHESTERFIELD’S REMARKS UPON THE FOREGOING MAXIMS.
  13. 13FOOTNOTES
  14. 14Transcriber’s Notes
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