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Letters / Lord Chesterfield ; edited with an introduction and notes by David Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Statesmen--Great Britain--Correspondence.
- Statesmen.
- Authors, English--18th century--Correspondence.
- Authors, English.
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773. Correspondence.
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (481 p.)
- Other Title:
- Lord Chesterfield's letters
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- `My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.'So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, providing him with instruction in etiquette and the worldly arts.Praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching `the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master', these letters reflect the political craft of a leading statesman and th
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Lord Chesterfield; LETTERS; Explanatory Notes; Index of Persons
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxv]-xxvi) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-159248-X
- OCLC:
- 714569747
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