Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746-47

The book is letters to his son on the art of becoming a man of the world and a gentleman, 1746-47. It has written letter of dear friend like as My dear friend I received yours yesterday morning together with the Prussian, papers, which I have read with great attention. If courts could blush, those of Vienna and Dresden ought, to have their falsehoods so publicly, and so undeniably exposed. The former will, I presume, next year, employ an hundred thousand men, to answer the accusation; and if the Empress of the two Russias is pleased to argue in the same cogent manner, their logic will be too strong for all the King of Prussia's rhetoric. I well remember the treaty so often referred to in those pieces, between the two Empresses, in 1746. The King was strongly pressed by the Empress Queen to accede to it. Wassenaer communicated it to me for that purpose. I hope will be tried, and I wish it may succeed. Good-night, and God bless you.