Universal classics library Volume 4 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...you meet with it; and I make no doubt, but that it will encourage you in persevering to deserve it. This is one paragraph of the Baron's letter: Ses moeurs dans un age si tendre, regites selon toutes les loix d'une morale exacte et sensie; son application (that is what I like) d tout ce qui s'appelle dtude sirieuse, et Belles Lettres, eloignie de Vombre mime d'un Faste Pedantesque, le rendent tres digne de vos tendres soins; et f ai Vhonneur de vous assurer que chacun se louera beaucoup de son commerce aisi, et de son amitii; f en ai profiti avec plasir ici et d, Vienne, et je me crois tres heureux de la permission, qu'il m'a accordfe, de la continuer par la voie de lettres.--Reputation, like health, is preserved and increased by the same means by which it is acquired. Continue to desire and deserve praise, and you will certainly find it. Knowledge, adorned by manners, will infallibly procure it. Consider, that you have but a little way further to get to your journey's end; therefore, for God's sake, do not slacken your pace; one year and a half more of sound application, Mr. Hartc assures me, will finish this work; and when this work is finished well, your own will be very easily done afterward. Les Manieres et les Graces are no immaterial parts of that work; and I beg that you will give as much of your attention to them as to your books. Everything depends upon them; senza di not ogni fatica e vana. The various companies you now go "Notwithstanding his great youth, his manners are regulated by the most unexceptionable rules of sense and of morality. His application (that Is What I Like) to every kind of serious study, as well as to polite literature, without even the least appearance of ostentatious pedantry, render him worthy of your most tender aff...