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Lord Chesterfield

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  • He went by the name Lord Chesterfield, later changed to David and Company because, he said, the “company” implied two people, and he could ask for more money.

    Born Standing Up Steve Martin 2007

  • "I think I've heard of him," said Miss Laura "Isn't he the man whom the boys call Lord Chesterfield?"

    Beautiful Joe Marshall Saunders 1904

  • Barkeley being the great favourites at Court, and growing every day more and more; and that upon a late dispute between my Lord Chesterfield, that is the Queen's Lord Chamberlain, and Mr. Edward Montagu, her Master of the

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 20: January/February 1662-63 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • a late dispute between my Lord Chesterfield, that is the Queen's Lord

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • a late dispute between my Lord Chesterfield, that is the Queen's Lord

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • The long history of published collections of correspondence, from Lord Chesterfield to Abraham Lincoln to Virginia Woolf to Flannery O'Connor, is coming to an end.

    Last letters from a master Jonathan Yardley 2010

  • The long history of published collections of correspondence, from Lord Chesterfield to Abraham Lincoln to Virginia Woolf to Flannery O'Connor, is coming to an end.

    Last letters from a master Jonathan Yardley 2010

  • In one of his famous letters to his son, Lord Chesterfield argues persuasively that it is impossible for an historian to fully know a man's motives.

    Barbara Leaming: Obama and the Tax Compromise: Why Did He Do It? Barbara Leaming 2010

  • In one of his famous letters to his son, Lord Chesterfield argues persuasively that it is impossible for an historian to fully know a man's motives.

    Barbara Leaming: Obama and the Tax Compromise: Why Did He Do It? Barbara Leaming 2010

  • The British statesman Lord Chesterfield, a favorite source of Victorian etiquette writers, believed everyday deference was due to all women because it provided their only shield against men's superior physical strength.

    [chivalry] and the hegemony of feminism [revisited] 2009

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