Letters written by the earl of Chatham to Thomas Pitt |
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Abridg Adieu affectionate uncle amiable authority awkward and ungenteel Bath behaviour BOLT COURT Burnet's History Cambridge cation cere character ciples Clarendon course danger dear boy dear child DEAR NEPHEW dearest nephew desires her best DROPMORE EARL OF CHATHAM eloquence English history father form opi gentleman give gout graceful habit happy Hayes hear heart hope infinite intended James's Square knowledge Lady Hester desires learning Leech lence lessons of Lord Let me know LETTER Lord Chatham love of virtue Ludlow Macte tuâ Virtute manly manner matter ment mind moral muses Nathaniel Bacon natural ness never nions noble obligation Oldcastle's Remarks opinion parliament Patriæ Pay Office philosophy pleased pleasure Plutarch politeness proper recommend religion render sion Sir Richard soon statesman stitution Sunning Hill superior sure thanks thing tion truest affection trust vate Virgil wish write youth ἀγαθῶν καὶ Τῆς
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2 ページ - Musam meditaris avena ; nos patriae fines et dulcia linquimus arva : nos patriam fugimus ; tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas.
xxix ページ - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
6 ページ - ... me here, at Bath, but very lately, after making a considerable circuit to find me. I should have otherwise, my dear child, returned you thanks for the very great pleasure you have given me, long before now. The very good account you give me of your studies, and that delivered in very good Latin, for your time, has filled me with the highest expectation of your future improvements: I see the foundations so well laid, that I do not make the least doubt but you will become a perfect good scholar;...
59 ページ - I desired you some time since to read lord Clarendon's History of the civil wars. I have lately read a much honester and more instructive book, of the same period of history; it is the History of the Parliament, by Thomas May,* esq., &c. I will send it to you as soon as you return to Cambridge.
97 ページ - DEAR NEPHEW, I HAVE the pleasure to acquaint you with the glad tidings of Hayes. Lady Hester was safely delivered this morning of a son. She and the child are as well as possible, and the father in the joy of his heart.
10 ページ - Go on, my dear boy, by this golden rule, and you cannot fail to become every thing your generous heart prompts you to wish to be, and that mine most affectionately wishes for you. There is but one danger in your way; and that is, perhaps, natural enough to your age, the love of pleasure, or the fear of close application and laborious diligence. With , the last there is nothing you may...
35 ページ - ... gesticulations of the body, or movements of the muscles of the face. It is rare to see in any one a graceful laughter; it is generally better to smile than laugh out, especially to contract a habit of laughing at small or no jokes. Sometimes it would be...
46 ページ - I trust, prematurely form notions of your own, concerning that usage of the world (as it is called) into which you have not yet travelled, and which must be long studied and practised before it can be tolerably well known. I can repeat nothing to you of so infinite consequence to your future welfare, as to conjure you not to be hasty in taking up notions and opinions: guard your honest and ingenuous mind against this main danger of youth : with regard to all things, that appear not to your reason,...
41 ページ - You much overrate the obligation, whatever it be, which youth has to those who have trod the paths of the world before them, for their friendly advice how to avoid the inconveniences, dangers, and evils, which they themselves may have run upon, for want of such timely warnings, and to seize, cultivate, and carry forward towards perfection, those advantages, graces, virtues, and felicities, which they may have totally missed, or stopped short in the generous pursuit. To lend this helping hand to those...
12 ページ - I would have inscribed on the curtains of your bed, and the walls of your chamber, " If you do not rise early, you can make progress in nothing. If you do not set apart your hours of reading ; if you suffer yourself or any one else to break in upon them, your days will slip through your hands unprofitable and frivolous, and unenjoyed by yourself.