statesman
and man of letters
.
A Whig
, Lord Stanhope, as he was known until his father's death in 1726, was born in London
. After being educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge
, he went on the Grand Tour
of the continent. The death of Anne
and the accession of George I
opened up a career for him and brought him back to England.
The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
Unlike my subject will I frame my song,It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
The dews of the evening most carefully shun —Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known.
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.