Cardinal de Retz — the Life of Richelieu— everything about Napoleon : read works of that kind. Strelamb shall prepare you a list. Read no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. London Society - Page 432edited by - 1871Full view - About this book
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1832 - 204 pages
...Retz— the Life of Richelieu—every thing about Napoleon,—read works of that kind. Strelamb will prepare you a list. Read no history : nothing but...for that is life without theory. Then fence. Talk an hour with your French master, but do not throw the burden of the conversation upon him. Give him... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1845 - 482 pages
...then for your separate masters. Rise early and regularly and read for three hours. Read the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz, the Life of Richelieu, everything...-works of that kind. Strelamb shall prepare you a list. Bead no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. Then fence. Talk an hour with... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1846 - 398 pages
...then, for your separate masters. Rise early and regularly, and read for three hours. Read the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz — the Life of Richelieu...for that is life without theory. Then fence. Talk an hour with your French master, but do not throw the burden of the conversation upon him. Give him... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1846 - 1116 pages
...then, for your separate masters. Rise early and regularly, and read for three hours. Read the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz — the Life of Richelieu...— read works of that kind. Strelamb shall prepare yon a list. Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. Then fence. Talk... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1853 - 286 pages
...then for your separate masters. Rise early and regularly and read for three hours. Read the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz — the Life of Richelieu—...for that is life without theory. Then fence. Talk an hour with your French master, but do not throw the burden of the conversation upon him. Give him... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1870 - 116 pages
...— the life of Richelieu — every thing about Napoleon — read works of that kind. Strelamb will prepare you a list. Read no history — nothing but...for that is life without theory. Then fence. Talk an hour with your French master, but do not throw the burden of the conversation upon him. Give him... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1871 - 728 pages
...then for your separate masters. Rise early and regularly and read for three hours. Read the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz, the Life of Richelieu, everything...for that is life without theory. Then fence. Talk an hour with your French master, but do not throw the burden of the conversation upon him. Give him... | |
| Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 pages
...then, for your separate masters. Rise early and regularly, and read for three hours. Read the memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz, the life of Richelieu —...for that is life without theory. Then fence. Talk an hour with your French master, but do not throw the burden of the conversation upon him. Give him... | |
| United Service Institution of India - 1921 - 822 pages
...greatest interest, both from a historical and biographical point of view. The author quotes the passage “Read no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory”, and although readers will probably not endorse that di¿tum in its entirety, it may be agreed that... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1878 - 480 pages
...then for your separate masters. Rise early and regularly and read for three hours. Read the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz, the Life of Richelieu, everything...for that is life without theory. Then fence. Talk an hour with your French master, but do not throw the burden of the conversation upon him. Give him... | |
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