Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son, on men and manners: or, A new system of education. In which the principles of politeness, the art of...

"FEW characters among the nobility of this age and nation are better known than that of the late ingenious and witty EARL of CHESTERFIELD; who was alike distinguished in the polite, the political, and the learned circles. With a great portion of good sense, he possessed a perfect knowledge of mankind; he was a complete gentleman, and a delightful companion. Blest with such rare talents and amiable qualities, no man surely was ever more happily qualified to assume the PRECEPTOR, and to dictate A SYSTEM OF EDUCATION."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.