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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1777. ... more pleafure than if unemployed. Do not imagine, that by the employment of time, I mean an uninterrupted application to ferious ftudies. No; pleafures are, at proper times, both as neceflary and as they falhion and form you for the world; they teach you chara&ers, and fhow you the human heart in its unguarded minutes. But then remember to make that ufe of them. I have known many people, from lazinefs of mind, go thorough both pleafure and bufinefs with equal neither enjoying the one, nor doing the other; thinking themfelves men of pleafure, becaufe they were mingled with thofe who were, and men of bufinefs, becaufe they had bufinefs to do, though they did not do it. Whatever you do, do it to the purpofe; do it thoroughly, not fuperficially. Approfondirez.; go to the bottom of things. Any thing haif done, or half known, is, in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay worfe, for it often mifleads. There is hardly any place, or any company, where you may not gain knowledge, if you pleafe; almoft every body knows fome one thing, and is glad to talk upon that one thing. Seek and you will find, in this world as well as in the next. See every thing, inquire into everything; and you may excufe your curiofity, and the queftions you afk, which otherwife might be thought impertinent, by your manner of afking them; for moft things depend a great deal upon the manner. As for example; / am afraid that I am very troublefeme with my queftions; but nobody can inform me fo iveU its you; or fomething of that kind. Now that you are in a Lutheran country, go to their churches, and obferve the manner of their public worfhip; attend to their ceremonies, and inquire the meaning and intention of every one of them. And, as you will foon underfland German w...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Letters Written by Phil. Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Phil. Stanhope, Together with Several Other Pieces (Volume 1). To get started finding Letters Written by Phil. Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Phil. Stanhope, Together with Several Other Pieces (Volume 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1777. ... more pleafure than if unemployed. Do not imagine, that by the employment of time, I mean an uninterrupted application to ferious ftudies. No; pleafures are, at proper times, both as neceflary and as they falhion and form you for the world; they teach you chara&ers, and fhow you the human heart in its unguarded minutes. But then remember to make that ufe of them. I have known many people, from lazinefs of mind, go thorough both pleafure and bufinefs with equal neither enjoying the one, nor doing the other; thinking themfelves men of pleafure, becaufe they were mingled with thofe who were, and men of bufinefs, becaufe they had bufinefs to do, though they did not do it. Whatever you do, do it to the purpofe; do it thoroughly, not fuperficially. Approfondirez.; go to the bottom of things. Any thing haif done, or half known, is, in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay worfe, for it often mifleads. There is hardly any place, or any company, where you may not gain knowledge, if you pleafe; almoft every body knows fome one thing, and is glad to talk upon that one thing. Seek and you will find, in this world as well as in the next. See every thing, inquire into everything; and you may excufe your curiofity, and the queftions you afk, which otherwife might be thought impertinent, by your manner of afking them; for moft things depend a great deal upon the manner. As for example; / am afraid that I am very troublefeme with my queftions; but nobody can inform me fo iveU its you; or fomething of that kind. Now that you are in a Lutheran country, go to their churches, and obferve the manner of their public worfhip; attend to their ceremonies, and inquire the meaning and intention of every one of them. And, as you will foon underfland German w...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Letters Written by Phil. Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Phil. Stanhope, Together with Several Other Pieces (Volume 1). To get started finding Letters Written by Phil. Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Phil. Stanhope, Together with Several Other Pieces (Volume 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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