| John Dennis - English literature - 1899 - 294 pages
...society of men of letters, and took his part among the wits of the age. ' I used,' he tells his son,' to think myself in company as much above me when I...as if I had been with all the princes in Europe.' As an essayist, although Chesterfield cannot compete with Addison or Steele, he is far from contemptible,... | |
| 1900 - 484 pages
...consideration : but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them. GOOD COMPANY as much above me, when I was with Mr. Addison...if I had been with all the princes in Europe. What I mean by low company, which should by all means be avoided, is the company of those who, absolutely... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope - Conduct of life - 1901 - 514 pages
...distinguished by some peculiar merit, or who excel in some particular and valuable art or science. For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much...if I had been with all the princes in Europe. What I mean by low company, which should by all means be avoided, is the company of those, who, absolutely... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1901 - 438 pages
...distinguished by some peculiar merit, or who excel in some particular and valuable art or science. For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much...if I had been with all the princes in Europe. What I mean by low company, which should by all means be avoided, is the company of those, who, absolutely... | |
| Success - 1902 - 508 pages
...distinguished by some peculiar merit, or who excel in some particular and valuable art or science. For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much...if I had been with all the princes in Europe. What I mean by low company, which should by all means be avoided, is the company of those who, absolutely... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1902 - 310 pages
...distinguished by some peculiar merit, or who excel in some particular and valuable art or science. For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much above me, when I was with Mr. Addison and Mr. Pope,1 as if I had been with all the princes in Europe. What I mean by low company — which should... | |
| Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - Great Britain - 1903 - 248 pages
...distinguished by some peculiar merit, or who excel in some particular and valuable art or science. For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much...as if I had been with all the princes in Europe." (Letter xcvi.) " AH general reflections, upon nations and societies, are the trite, threadbare jokes... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 456 pages
...while he speaks of the grief of the step-son, says nothing of the widow. Works, Preface, p. 13. 1 1 used to think myself in company as much above me when...as if I had been with all the Princes in Europe." CHESTERFIELD, Letters to his Son, i. 280. APPENDIX R (PAGE 115) These words are not in The Old Whig,... | |
| John Dennis - English literature - 1906 - 286 pages
...society of men of letters, and took his part among the wits of the age. ' I used,' he tells his son, ' to think myself in company as much above me when I...as if I had been with all the princes in Europe.' As an essayist, although Chesterfield cannot compete with Addison or Steele, he is far from contemptible,... | |
| William Henry Craig - 1907 - 458 pages
...professors than Chesterfield. It may be remembered how in one of the letters to his son he says : " For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much...as if I had been with all the princes in Europe." If this had been uttered in a set speech, perhaps little importance might' attach to it; but occurring... | |
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