Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Published: 2018-01-29
Total Pages: 164
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Excerpt from Chesterfield's Letters to His Son: Selections After this, too, came the condem nation of the celebrated letters, a savage epigram, only partially true, and redeemed by a more favourable criticism. If Mr. Dickens painted - as it has been said he did Sir John Chester from Lord Chesterfield, be equally mistook the man; and we are sorry to add to this list of those who have followed Johnson's lead, Mrs. Oliphant, in her recent admirable His torical Sketches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.