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A Guide to Men and Manners:

CONSISTING OF

LORD CHESTERFIELD'S

ADVICE TO HIS SON.

To which is added,

A SUPPLEMENT:

Containing Extracts from various Books, recom-
mended by Lord Chesterfield to Mr, Stanhope.

.TOGETHER WITH

THE POLITE PHILOSOPHER;

Or, An Essay on the Art which makes a Man happy
in himself, and agreeable to others:

DR. BLAIR'S ADVICE TO YOUTH,

DR. FORDYCE ON HONOUR AS A
PRINCIPLE,

LORD BURGHLEY'S TEN PRECEPTS TO
HIS SON,

DR. FRANKLIN'S WAY TO WEALTH,

AND

POPE'S UNIVERSAL PRAYER.

LONDON:

Printed for J. Walker;

J. Richardson; F. C. and J. Rivington; R. Lea;
J. Nunn; E. Jeffery; Newman and Co.; Lacking-
ton, Allen, and Co.; Longmau, Hurst, Rees, Orme,
and Brown; Cadell and Davies; Wilkie and Ro-
binson; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; Sherwood,
Neely, and Jones; J. Asperne; Cradock and
Joy; and J. Harris.

1813.

1956-7

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE very flattering reception which the following work experienced from the Public, through seven successive editions, has encouraged the Editor to enlarge the plan, and thus render the piece of more extensive utility.

The abilities of Lord Chesterfield, to inculcate such precepts as should form the mind and fashion the manners' of youth, are too universally admired to need encomium. In the Advice of that noble Earl to his Son, there are to be found such judicious remarks on men, manners, and things, connected with so intimate a knowledge of the world, that the sentiments, considered as maxims, form a very valuable system of education.

But, as the observations of different writers on the same subject are mutually illustrative of each other; to render the following work acceptable, a variety of Notes are subjoined, extracted from a small treatise on Politeness, entitled Galateo.' This exquisite piece was written by the Archbishop of Benevento, in the sixteenth century, about the commencement of the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; and it shews (as the English Translator observes)

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to what a degree of refinement, both in manners and literature, the Italians were arrived, when we were at a period just emerging from ignorance and barbarity.' Of the treatise thus described it is only necessary farther to add, that it has been translated into Latin, as well as the modern languages; and so celebrated is the fame of the author, that, at this day, it is proverbial in Italy to pronounce of an ill-bred man, That he has not read Galateo.'

Without intending the most distant imputation of plagiarism, it may be presumed that Lord Chesterfield had this very book before him when he wrote his Letters to his Son. The reader who takes the trouble of comparing the extracts from Galateo, now subjoined, with the sentiments of the noble Earl, will most probably be of the same opinion.

That nothing might be wanting to render the fol. lowing work complete, the Precepts of Lord Burghley to his Son are added, as highly estimable on the subjects of manners and education. The most ordinary sentiments of so dignified a character ac quire weight; but when a series of well-digested precepts, the result of great knowledge and extensive experience, are delivered for the guidance of a son in the momentous concerns of life and happiness, the preceptor claims our esteem, and his opi nions our reverence.

To the preceding editions of this work, the Marchioness de Lambert's Advice to her Son, and the Moral Reflections of the Duc de la Rochefoucault,

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