 | 1865 - 740 pages
...esteemed himself to be a prodigious favourite. By way of a joke, we will have one of these passages: "Women, then, are only children of a larger growth...they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit ; but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never knew in my life one that had it, or who reasoned or... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1857 - 642 pages
...proposes to make in it,) it is necessary to please them. I will therefore, upon this subject, let yon iuto certain Arcana, that will be very useful for you to know, but •which yon must, with the utmost care, conceal; and never seem to know. Women, then, are only children of... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1870 - 292 pages
...importance to the fortune and figure he proposes to make in it), it is necessary to please them. I will therefore, upon this subject, let you into certain...they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit; but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never in my life knew one that had it, or who reasoned or acted... | |
 | Charles Patrick Fox - 1871 - 292 pages
...importance to the fortune and figure he proposes to make in it), it is necessary to please them. I will, therefore, upon this subject, let you into certain...they have an entertaining tattle and sometimes wit, but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never in my life knew one that had it, or who reasoned or acted... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1872 - 474 pages
...importance to the fortune and figure he proposes to make in it), it is necessary to please them. I will, therefore, upon this subject, let you into certain...they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit ; but for solid, reasoni Men find in the misfortune of their best friends something not altogether... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1876 - 636 pages
...proposes to mnke in it,) it is necessary to please them. I will therefore, upon this subject, let yon into certain Arcana, that will be very useful for...then, are only children of a larger growth ; they have au entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit; but for solid reasoning, good sense, I never knew in my... | |
 | Jane Hume Clapperton - 1885 - 510 pages
...too, in woman's position, and the sentiments she calls forth, are equally marked. "Women," he writes, "are only children of a larger growth; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit ; but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never in my life knew one that had .it. A man of sense only... | |
 | Richard Ashe King - 1885 - 340 pages
...sex than by this elegant extract from one of the letters of that A rbiter Elegantiarum : — ' Women are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit ; but for solid reasoning, good sense, I never in my life knew one that had it, or who reasoned or... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1888 - 346 pages
...importance to the fortune and figure he proposes to make in it), it is necessary to please them. I will therefore, upon this subject, let you into certain...they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit; but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never in my life knew one that had it, or who reasoned or acted... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1891 - 302 pages
...Boswell's Life of Johnson, i. 140. Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom. Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom. certain Arcana that will be very useful for you to...they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit ; but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never in my life knew one that had it, or who reasoned or... | |
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Women, then, are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit ; but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never in my life knew one that had it, or who reasoned or acted consequentially for four and twenty hours... 
