 Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads ; for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well. It always...  The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son - Page 41by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1901Full view - About this book
 | 1805 - 506 pages
...lectures to his spoiled -*-* child, says, " take care not to understand editions and title T»ages too well. It always smells of pedantry, and not always of learning." Now, though there is a species of literary foppery and ostentatious vanity, which is always shooting... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope - Philosophy, English - 1810 - 456 pages
...hooks arc the commonest, and the last editions are always the hest, if the editors are not hlockheads ; for they may profit of the former. But take care not to ftnderstand editions and title-pages too well. It always smells of pedantry, and not always of learning.... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliography - 1817 - 606 pages
...disquisitions upon the Origin of Printing by MEERMAV : * works, which are nearly master-pieces of their are not blockheads ; for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well. [More and more frightfully heretifal !] It always smells of pedantry, and not... | |
 | 1853 - 704 pages
...prescience, " Buy good books and read them ; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the Editors are not blockheads, for they may profit of the former." This is especially true of his own works. The last edition of Lord Chesterfield's writings is incomparably... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1847 - 492 pages
...books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads...former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well. It always smells of pedantry, and not always of learning. What curious books... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads,...learning. What curious books I have, they are indeed but fcw, shall be at your service. I have some of the old Collana, and the Macbiavel of 1550. Beware of... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1853 - 702 pages
...prescience, " Buy good books and read them ; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the Editors are not blockheads, for they may profit of the former." This is especially true of his own works. The last edition of Lord Chesterfield's writings is incomparably... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1870 - 292 pages
...who was thought by Chesterfield too much of a savant and a man of the world to be foolishly devout. best, if the editors are not blockheads ; for they...former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well. It always smells of pedantry, and not always of learning. What curious books... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1872 - 474 pages
...books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads,...former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well. It always smells of pedantry, and not always of learning. What curious books... | |
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