ADVERTISEMENT. SOON ON after the publication of the late LordChefterfield's Letters to his Son, the additional ones contained in the present collection were recovered by Mrs. Stanhope. That she had a defign to publish them, appears from the following Preface, which was found with the Letters, foon after Mrs. Stanhope's decease, in her own hand-writing. PRE PREFACE, By Mrs. E. STANHOP E. THE favourable reception of the late Earl of Chef terfield's Letters to his Son, encourages the Editor to hope that a completion of them will be acceptable to the Public-It has often been regretted that feveral of the first letters were wanting; fome in particular, which form an Epitome of English hiftory, and others on geographical fubjects. Most of thefe deficiencies are fupplied in the prefent publication. In order to prove the authenticity of the letters in this collection, as well as to teftify her gratitude, the Editor begs leave to inform the Public, that the originals, now in ber poffeffion, were most generously tranfmitted to her by Sir William Forbes, whofe father inherited them from: the late Sir Andrew Mitchell. How they came into Sir Andrew's poffeffion is not known: probably they were left with him at Berlin by the late Mr.Philip Stanhope. To the letters written to Mr. Stanhope in his juvenile: days, are added fome of a more recent date. One of thefe, containing the character of the late Duke of Ormond, and fome circumstances relative to that Nobleman's impeachment, will perhaps be deemed interefting. Of fuch letters as are written in French, it has been thought requifite to give an English translation. SUPPLEMENT то LORD CHESTERFIELD's LETTERS. LETTER I. A Bath, ce 18 Octobre, 1738. MON CHER ENFANT, E vous ai parlé dans ma derniere de la célebre JE ville d'Athenes. Mais j'y reviens encore aujourd'hui, car on n'en peut pas trop dire, et vous ne pouvez pas la connoître trop bien. Elle a produit les plus grands hommes de l'antiquité, et a laiffé les plus beaux modeles d'Eloquence, de Poëfie, de Philofophie, de Peinture, de Sculpture, et enfin de tous les Arts et les Sciences; c'eft fur ces modeles-là que les Romains se font formés depuis, et c'eft fur ces modeles auffi que nous devons nous former. Platon, le plus grand philofophe qui a jamais été, c'est-à-dire l'homme le plus fage et le plus favant, étoit Athenien; fes ouvrages quis nous reftent encore, font ce qu'il y a de plus beau de l'antiquité. Il étoit le difciple, c'est-à-dire l'écolier, de Socrates, célebre philofophe, et le plus vertueux de tous les anciens; mais SUPPL. Socrates B |