Letters to His Son On the Art of Becoming a Man of the World And a Gentleman, 1752
Letters to His Son On the Art of Becoming a Man of the World And a Gentleman, 1752
Chesterfield Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of
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As for your stay at Hanover, it must not IN ALL EVENTS be less than amonth; but if things turn out to Your SATISFACTION, it may be just aslong as you please. From thence you may go wherever you like; for I haveso good an opinion of your judgment, that I think you will combine andweigh all circumstances, and choose the properest places. Would yousaunter at some of the small courts, as Brunswick, Cassel, etc. , till theCarnival at Berlin? You are master. Would you pass a couple of months atRatisb...on, which might not be ill employed? 'A la bonne heure'. Would yougo to Brussels, stay a month or two there with Dayrolles, and from thenceto Mr. Yorke, at The Hague? With all my heart. Or, lastly, would you goto Copenhagen and Stockholm? 'Lei e anche Padrone': choose entirely foryourself, without any further instructions from me; only let me know yourdetermination in time, that I may settle your credit, in case you go toplaces where at present you have none. Your object should be to see the'mores multorum hominum et urbes'; begin and end it where you please.
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