The Beauties of Chesterfield

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Excerpt from The Beauties of Chesterfield : Consisting of Selections From His Works-wnn' is commonly called an absent man, is commonly either a very weak, or a very af-i 'fected man: but, be he which he will, he is, I am sure, a very disagreeable man in company. He fails in all the common offices of civility, he seems not to know those people to-day, with whom yesterday he appeared to live in intima cy. He takes no part in the general conversa tion, but, on the contrary, breaks into it, from time to time, with some start of his own, as if he waked from a dream. This (as I said be fore) is-a sure indication either of a mind so weak that it is not able to bear above one object at a time or so affected, that it would be supposed to be wholly engrossed by, and Jirected to some very great and irnportant objects. Sir Isaac Newton, Mr. Locke, and (it may be) five or six more, since the creation of the world, may have had a right to absence, from that intense thought whicmgsth'if were investigating required. But if a young man, and a man of the world, who has no such.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.