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"Letter"
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"Prose"
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"Male"
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Work title:
"Letters by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield written to his Son Philip Stanhope Esq."
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1774
"I find by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when the one suffers, the other sympathizes."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"Voltaire must be criticised; besides, every man's favorite is attacked: for every prejudice is exposed, and our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)