Philip Dormer Stanhope
Published: 2016-10-20
Total Pages: 292
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Excerpt from The American Chesterfield, or Way to Wealth, Honour, and Distinction: Being Selections From the Letters of Lord Chesterfield to His Son, and Extracts From Other Eminent Authors, on the Subject of Politeness; With Alterations and Additions, Suited to the Youth of the United States Under the notion of modesty, you must not indulge yourself in a Spiritless sheepishness, . In this way, many have been lost to them' selves, their families, their friends. And their country. When a man has taken care to pre tend to nothing, but what he can justly aim at, and can, without injustice to any other' execute as well as others, it is even want of breeding or courage to be brow-beaten or el bowed out of his honest ambition. Modesty must be an act of the will; and, ifa man, after having fixed on any thing laudable, from an unmanly bashfulness, shrinks away, he ought not to be angry that another succeeds, and that the world approves. 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.