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" God, who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May He bless you. "
Letters on education, and characters - Page 418
by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1847
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The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 4

1910 - 1050 pages
...Slate of Ike Nation, an unfinished pamphlet. Lord Chesterfield records the last words heard from him: " God who placed me here will do what He pleases with me hereafter and He knows best what to do." He died on the 1 2th of December 1751, his wife having predeceased him in 1750. Theywereboth buried...
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The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 4

1910 - 1066 pages
...Stale of the Nation, an unfinished pamphlet. Lord Chesterfield records the last words heard from him: " God who placed me here will do what He pleases with me hereafter and He knows best what to do." He died on the 1 2th of December 1751, his wife having predeceased him in 1750. Thcywereboth buried...
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...person, with a most engaging address in his air and manners ; he had all the dignity and good breeding which a man of quality should or can have, and which...' Upon the whole of this extraordinary character, what can we say, but, alas \ poor human nature ! PD STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. — Characters....
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Idiomatic French Composition: Letters and Memoirs in Life and Fiction, Volume 1

Adeline Pellissier - 1914 - 296 pages
...before he died, / took my last leave 31 of him with grief, and he returned me his last farewell 32 with tenderness, and said, "God who placed me here will do what he pleases with 33 me hereafter; 27 and he knows best 34 what to do. 3S May he bless you!'' Upon the whole 36 of this...
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The History of Henry Fielding, Volume 3

Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 472 pages
...in his face, not from his conscience. He did indeed remark, when he bade farewell to Chesterfield, "God who placed me here will do what He pleases with me hereafter, and He knows best what to do " ; but this was no recantation, for Bolingbroke was never an atheist; nor do his last words display...
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The History of Henry Fielding, Volume 3

Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 470 pages
...in his face, not from his conscience. He did indeed remark, when he bade farewell to Chesterfield, "God who placed me here will do what He pleases with me hereafter, and He knows best what to do"; but this was no recantation, for Bolingbroke was never an atheist; nor do his last words display any...
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The History of Henry Fielding, Volume 3

Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 458 pages
...in his face, not from his conscience. He did indeed remark, when he bade farewell to Chesterfield, "God who placed me here will do what He pleases with me hereafter, and He knows best what to do"; but this was no recantation, for Bolingbroke was never an atheist; nor do his last words display any...
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Lord Chesterfield's Characters

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1927 - 104 pages
...A week before he died, I took my last leave of him with grief; and he returned me his last farewel with tenderness, and said, "God who " placed me here...you!" Upon the whole of this extraordinary character, what can we say, but, alas poor human nature! MR MR. PULTENEY*. Mr. Pulteney was formed by nature for...
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