Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield; Consisting of Letters to His Friends, Never Before Printed, and Various Other Articles to Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life, Tending to Volume 2
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. 1779 edition. Excerpt: ...refufe, he forgives where he may with juftice refent, and his whole con-duel is directed by the noble ientiments of his own unvitiated heart; furer and more Icrupulous guides than the laws of the land, which, being calculated for the generality of mankind, muft neceflarily be more a reftraint upon vices in ...
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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. 1779 edition. Excerpt: ...refufe, he forgives where he may with juftice refent, and his whole con-duel is directed by the noble ientiments of his own unvitiated heart; furer and more Icrupulous guides than the laws of the land, which, being calculated for the generality of mankind, muft neceflarily be more a reftraint upon vices in general, than an invitation and reward of particular virtues. But thefe extenfzve and compound notions of Honor have been long contracted, and reduced to the fingle one of perfonal courage. Among the Romans, Honor meant no more than contempt of dangers and death in the fervice, whether juft or unjuft, of their country. Their fuccefibrs and conquerors, the Goths and Vandals, who did not deal much in complex ideas, fimplified thoie of Honor, and reduced them to this plain and fingle one, of fighting for fighting's fcke, upon any, or all, no matter what, occafions. Our prefent mode of Honor is fomething more compounded, as will appear by the true character which I fhall now give of a fafhionable Man Of Honor. A Gentleman, which is now the genteel fynony-mous term for a Man Of Honor, muft, like his Gothic anceftors, be ready for, and rather defirous of, fingle combat. And if by a proper degree of wrong-' A gentleman is every man, who with a tolerable fuit of cloaths, a fword by his fide, and a watch and fnaff-box in his pockets, af-ferts himfelf to be a gentleman, fwears with energy that be will lc treated as fuch, and that he will cut tht throat of any man who prc-fiims to fay the contrary. i hcadednefs headednefs he provokes it, he is only fo much the more jealous of his Honor, and more of a Gen-TLEMAN. He may lie with impunity, if he is neither detected nor accufed of it: for it is not the lie he tells, but the lie he is told of, that difhonors...
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