Excerpt from Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq., Late Envoy-Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden, Vol. 3 of 4: Together With Several Other Pieces on Various Subjects AS your journey to Paris approaches, and as that period will, one way or other, be of infinite confequence to you, my letters will hencefor ards be principally' calculated for that meridian. You will be. Left there to your own difcretion', infieadbf Mr. Harte's; and yodowill allow me, I am fure, to difirutt a little the difcretion of eighteen. You will find in the Academy a num ber of young fellows much lefs difcreet than yourfelf. Thete will all be your acquaintances bui look about you firti and inquire into their re fpeetive characters, before you form any connec tions among them; and, cwteris paribus, hugle out thofe of the tnofi conliderable rank and fa mily. Shew them a difiinguilhing attention by which means'you will get into their relpet'itive liotnes, /and keep the belt company. All thofe French young tcllows are exceflively etourdis be tipon your guar againli fcrapes and quarrels have no plcafantries with them, no jaw dc mains, no coups (1c chuml'ricze, which frequently bring on quarrels. Be as lively as they, if you pleafe, but at the fame time he a little xvilbr than they. As to letters, you will find molt of them ignorant; do not reproach them with that ignorance, nor make them feel your fuperiority It is not their fault; they are all bled up for the army: but. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.