 Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain ; but take care always, that your clothes are well made, and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. When you are once well dressed for the day, think no...  Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son - Page 212by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1876 - 609 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Books and reading - 1801 - 474 pages
...others are plain ; but take care, always, that your clothes are v/ell made, and fit you, for otherwife they will give you a very awkward air. When you are once well drefled for the day, think no more of it afterwards ; and, without any itiffhefs for fear of difcompofmg... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope - Philosophy, English - 1810 - 456 pages
...at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; hut take care always that your clothes are well made and...fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions he as easy and natural as if you had no clothes on at all. So mnch for dress, which I maintain to he... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 408 pages
...aud plain. where others wo plain ; but take eare always that your elothes are weil made and fit.you ; for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. When you are onee well dressed for the day, think no more of it afterwards ; and, without any stiffness for fear... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1815 - 360 pages
...mcrous ยป and oftener counted than vveigbcd. Whea we are once well-dressed for the day,' we should think no more of it afterwards ; and, without any stiffness for fear of discomposing that dress we should be as easy and natural as if we had no clothes on at all . Dancing, likewise, though a silly... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1828 - 270 pages
...and stink at fifty years old Dress yourself fine, where others are fine , and plain, where others are plain : but take care always, that your clothes are well made, and lit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. When you are once well dressed for the... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Esq. Alfred Howard - 1831 - 306 pages
...and stink at fifty years old Dress yourself fine, where others are fine, and plain, where others are plain : but take care always, that your clothes are...of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be easy and natural, as if you had no clothes on at all. So much for dress, which I maintain to be a thing... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1831 - 290 pages
...very numerous, and ofteuer counted than weighed. When we are once well dressed for the day, we should think no more of it afterwards; and, without any stiffness for fear of discomposing that dress, we should he as easy and natural as if we had no clothes on at all. Dancing, likewise, though a silly... | |
 | Charles Lister - 1845 - 322 pages
...and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain, but take care always that your clothes are...otherwise they will give you a very awkward air." We find him writing in the May of the following year : " Mr. H informs me that you are clothed in sumptuous... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1847 - 492 pages
...and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain ; but take care always, that your clothes are...your motions be as easy and natural as if you had no clothes on at all. So much for dress, which I maintain to be a thing of consequence in the polite world.... | |
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