Letters, sentenc
Letters, sentences and maxims
作者：Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773; Sayle, Charles, 1864-1924 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 1804-1869 [Contributor]
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共 34 题- By LORD CHESTERFIELD
- POPE.
- PREFATORY NOTE.
- BY CHARLES SAYLE.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- CRITICAL ESSAY.
- BY C. A. SAINTE-BEUVE.[13]
- LORD CHESTERFIELD’S LETTERS, SENTENCES, AND MAXIMS.
- The reader may puzzle out the rest.]
- MY DEAR BOY:--
- Here is history enough for to-day. [_Sam
- DISTRACTION AND INATTENTION.--I know no
- God bless and grant you a speedy recovery! [_Oct. 17, 1768._]
- MAXIMS.[56]
- POLITICAL MAXIMS FROM CARDINAL DE RETZ.[57]
- 7. Sufferings, in people of the first rank, supply the want of virtue.
- 10. We are as often duped by diffidence, as by confidence.
- 14. It is more unbecoming a minister to say, than to do, silly things.
- 17. Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.
- 26. Weak minds never yield when they ought.
- 29. Weak minds are commonly overpowered by clamor.
- 30. We ought never to contend for what we are not likely to obtain.
- 39. In momentous affairs, no step is indifferent.
- 40. There are times in which certain people are always in the right.
- 44. A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.
- 65. In momentous transactions, words cannot be sufficiently weighed.
- 67. Whoever assembles the multitude will raise commotions.
- LORD CHESTERFIELD’S REMARKS UPON THE FOREGOING MAXIMS.
- FOOTNOTES
- Transcriber’s Notes