 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...yourself fine, where others are fine, and plain, where others are plain ; but take care always that yonr , like other go-carts and crutches. — Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still Chesterfield. A gentleman's taute in dress, is, upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant.... | |
 | Delphian Society - 1913 - 570 pages
...sloven at forty. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain ; but take care always that your clothes are well made and...fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be as easy and natural as if you had no clothes on at all. So much for dress, which I maintain to be... | |
 | Douglas Gordon Crawford - 1919 - 398 pages
...and stink at fifty. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain ; but take care always that your clothes are well made and...for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. Chesterfield 4. "My friends, are you ready for the question? Will you cut bait or go ashore ? Remember,... | |
 | Lillian Eichler - 1921 - 304 pages
...intolerable at sixty. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and...for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. —Cliesterfield. \ CHAPTER I SPEECH One is judged first by his dress but this judgment is not final.... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1923 - 352 pages
...enhances ' them and cannot exist apart from them.' 2 Lord Chesterfield gives advice to the same effect : ' When you ' are once well dressed for the day, think...of discomposing that dress, let all ' your motions be as easy and natural as if you had no clothes on at 1 all ' — (30 December 1748). And again : '... | |
 | Lillian Eichler - 1921 - 304 pages
...intolerable at sixty. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and...for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. -^Chesterfield. CHAPTER I SPEECH One is judged first by his dress but this judgment is not final. A... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pages
...fifty years old. Dress yourself fine, where others are fine; and plain where others are plain; but g be as easy and natural as if you had no clothes on at all. So much for dress, which I maintain to be... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...fifty years old. Dress yourself fine, where others are fine; and plain where others are plain; but petals from blown roses on the grass; Or night-dews...gleaming pass: Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, s no'more of it afterwards^ and, without any stiffness for fear of discomposing that dress, let all your... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1901 - 438 pages
...fifty years old. Dress yourself fine, where others are fine; and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made, and fit you, for otherwise they will gi^e you a very awkward air. When you are once well dressed for the day think no more of it afterward;... | |
 | Tobi Tobias - 2001 - 180 pages
...cleanly and properly dressed as at the hours of dinner or tea. — THOMAS JEFFERSON 1743-1826 [I05] When you are once well dressed for the day think no...fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be as easy and natural as if you had no clothes on at all. — PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE fourth earl of... | |
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Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain ; but take care always, that your clothes are well made, and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. When you are once well dressed for the day, think no... 
