Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

PART I.

TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE PHILIP DORMER, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES OF STATE.

MY LORD.

WHEN FIRST I UNDERTOOK TO WRITE AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY, I HAD NO EXPECTATION OF ANY HIGHER PATRONAGE THAN THAT OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE COPY, NOR PROSPECT OF ANY OTHER ADVANTAGE THAN THE PRICE OF MY LABOUR.

The theatre is a school to acquire the French language, for which reason I frequent it more than the other.

In Paris he met young Philip Stanhope, the boy to whom the Earl of Chesterfield wrote his celebrated letters.

But, says Wolfe, I fancy he is infinitely inferior to his father.

Keeping fit, as we call it nowadays, seems to have been Wolfe's first object.

But hopefully, the podcast episodes also stand on their own so that you don't have to read the text, and you can just enjoy these cliff notes.

Although I think readers can skip Lord Chesterfield's letters.

[laughs]

Yeah.

Um, man, what a annoying book.

[laughs] I really hated every second of reading this.

You know, the, the thing about Lord Chesterfield's letters is that he obviously did not intend-

Yeah.

The theater is a school to acquire the French language, for which reason I frequent it more than the other.

In Paris he met young Philip Stanhope, the boy to whom the Earl of Chesterfield wrote his celebrated letters.

But, says Wolfe, I fancy he is infinitely inferior to his father.

Keeping fit, as we call it nowadays, seems to have been Wolfe's first object.