Life of Lord Chesterfield; an account of the ancestry, personal character & public services of the fourth Earl of Chesterfield[microform] . d any actual claim to be. The whole Court, from the Kingdownwards, laughed at his pretensions to be a vanquisherof the sex, and there was no form of flattery in which hissoul more delighted than the reproaches levelled at him asan inevitable foe to domestic peace. He affected followingmany women of the first beauty and the most in fashion,says Hervey, and if you would have taken his word forit, not without success ; whilst in fact and in truth henever gain
Life of Lord Chesterfield; an account of the ancestry, personal character & public services of the fourth Earl of Chesterfield[microform] . d any actual claim to be. The whole Court, from the Kingdownwards, laughed at his pretensions to be a vanquisherof the sex, and there was no form of flattery in which hissoul more delighted than the reproaches levelled at him asan inevitable foe to domestic peace. He affected followingmany women of the first beauty and the most in fashion,says Hervey, and if you would have taken his word forit, not without success ; whilst in fact and in truth henever gained any one above the venal rank of those whoman Adonis or a Vulcan might be equally well with, for anequal sum of money. ^ And the same acrid chroniclertells us that George H once said: Chesterfield is a littletea-table scoundrel that tells little womanish lies to makequarrels in families ; and tries to make women lose theirreputations, and make their husbands beat them, withoutany object but to give himself airs; as if any one couldbelieve a woman could like a dwarf baboon.^ He like- ^ Hervey, vol. I, p. 96. Ibid., vol. Ill, p. JOHN, LORD HERVEYFrom a Inist in tle possession of the I^Iarquis of Bristoi
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