Earl Of Chesterfield
Subtitle: Letters To His Son
Contributors: Oliver H. G. Leigh (Contributor)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781419173790
Subjects: Biography: general; Biography: historical; Letters; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Historical - British; Historical - General
First sentence: DEAR BOY: Your distresses in your journey from Heidelberg to Schaffhausen, your lying upon straw, your black bread, and your broken berline, are proper seasonings for the greater fatigues and distresses which you must expect in the course of your travels; and, if one had a mind to moralize, one might call them the samples of the accidents, rubs, and difficulties, which every man meets with in his journey through life.