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
| Ignatius Sancho - History - 1998 - 388 pages
...those who follow me. As Sancho's contemporary the Earl of Chesterfield remarked, "the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads, for they may profit of the former." I am deeply indebted to the staffs and collections of the following institutions: the Allen County... | |
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