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The Man of Education: Or, Beauties of Lord Chesterfield. Being Selection from that Author, of Pieces the Most Valuble and Unexceptionable, on Education, Manners, and the General Conduct of Life.

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Description/Abstract:

1801 printing of the first American edition. Preface emphasizes Lord Chesterfield's approach to the refinement of taste; the epistolary style; and knowledge of life, men, and manner (appropriate for the gentleman, the scholar, and the man of education). Preface also states text has been revised and amended by Rev. Dr. Gregory to remove the parts which religion, virtue and morality would disapprove and to adapt it for schools and academies. Schultz Archive copy only includes the preface and first page of Letter sixty three: Of Style in Writing . . . Advantages of a good style . . . Examples of a bad Style . . . Cicero and Quintilian.

Creator/Author:

Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of, 1755-1815

Submitter:

Russel Durst

Date Uploaded:

05/24/2016

Date Modified:

07/21/2020

Date Created:

1801

License:

Public Domain Mark 1.0
Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men and Manners: or a New System of Education

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Document

Description/Abstract:

1801 printing. Contents include: absence of mind, attention, awkwardness of different kinds, bashfulness, company, rules for behavior in company, rules for conversation, economy, friendship, good breeding, and graces. Schultz Archive copy includes only pages 66 and 67 on letter writing from the chapter on graces.

Creator/Author:

Blauvelt, Abraham, 1764-1838 and Stanhope, Philip Dormer

Submitter:

Russel Durst

Date Uploaded:

05/24/2016

Date Modified:

07/20/2020

Date Created:

1801

License:

Public Domain Mark 1.0

The Man of Education: Or, Beauties of Lord Chesterfield. Being Selection from that Author, of Pieces the Most Valuble and Unexceptionable, on Education, Manners, and the General Conduct of Life.

Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men and Manners: or a New System of Education

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