 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1800 - 418 pages
...and to make him at once refpectable and amiable, able, the leaft inuft be joined to the greateft ; the latter would be unavailing, without the former*...world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and ftudying all the various editions of them. Many words in every language are generally thought to be... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1801 - 474 pages
...and to make him at once refpedtable and amiable, and the leaft • •nil be joined to the greateft ; the latter would be unavailing without the former,...the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired oy reading men, and ftu<5ying all the various editions- of them. Many words in every language are generally... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 408 pages
...man ; and, to make him at onee respeetable and amiable, the least must be joined to the greatest ; the latter would be unavailing, without the former...futile and frivolous, without the latter. Learning is aequired by reading books ; but the mueh more neeessary learning, the know iedge of the world, is only... | |
 | Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1827 - 408 pages
...man, and to make him at once respectable and amiable, and the least must be joined to the greatest ; the latter would be unavailing, without the former...Learning is acquired by reading books ; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1847 - 574 pages
...man, and to make him at once respectable and amiable, and the least must be joined to the greatest ; the latter would be unavailing without the former...Learning is acquired by reading books ; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...a man ; and to make him at once respectable and amiable, the least must be joined to the greatest; the latter would be unavailing, without the former;...Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - 1868 - 194 pages
...Pope. — " Learning," says Lord Chesterfield, .?is acquired by reading books; but the more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying nil the various editions of them." Again : " All are in general, and yet no two in particular,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 528 pages
...man, and to make him at once respectable and amiable, and the least must be joined to the greatest ; the latter would be unavailing without the former...Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 504 pages
...man, and to make him at once respectable and amiable, and the least must be joined to the greatest ; the latter would be unavailing without the former;...Learning is acquired by reading books ; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying... | |
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Learning is acquired by reading books ; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men and studying all the various editions of them. 
