Authority Cited: Chesterfield, Earl of
Author name and dates: Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773)
BKG Bio-tweet: Sometime SJ patron; foreign service influential; home maneuvering unsuccessful; elegant speaker, writer; opposed Stamp Act
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Chesterfield cite was identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. Chesterfield's Letters to his Son and the Miscellaneous Works were published after the 1773 Dict. SJ perhaps recalled from memory a report of the Chesterfield 1737 speech to the House of Lords against the Licensing Act. The Miscellaneous Works, 1777, which contains this speech and two other speeches written by SJ for the Parliamentary Debates, erroneously attributed to Chesterfield, does not contain the quote. The Miscellaneous Works, vol.1 p. 228, says the Fog's Journal version was incorrect and defective. The Works says a corrected speech was published in the Magazines and then in the House of Lords vol. V p.210. I did not search these sources. I first found the speech with the Dict. phrase in Roach's New and Complete History of the Stage, 1796, p.46. So, I think SJ remembered the speech of the "noble Lord" from his first London/Greenwich sojourn in the summer of 1737, perhaps from reading the London and Gentleman's Magazines in coffeehouses, and added the new headword ridiculer above the entry for ridiculous when editing the 1773 Dict. The Chesterfield defense of press freedom would have been in line with SJ's, or perhaps influenced his views at the time.]
Author name and dates: Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773)
BKG Bio-tweet: Sometime SJ patron; foreign service influential; home maneuvering unsuccessful; elegant speaker, writer; opposed Stamp Act
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Chesterfield cite was identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. Chesterfield's Letters to his Son and the Miscellaneous Works were published after the 1773 Dict. SJ perhaps recalled from memory a report of the Chesterfield 1737 speech to the House of Lords against the Licensing Act. The Miscellaneous Works, 1777, which contains this speech and two other speeches written by SJ for the Parliamentary Debates, erroneously attributed to Chesterfield, does not contain the quote. The Miscellaneous Works, vol.1 p. 228, says the Fog's Journal version was incorrect and defective. The Works says a corrected speech was published in the Magazines and then in the House of Lords vol. V p.210. I did not search these sources. I first found the speech with the Dict. phrase in Roach's New and Complete History of the Stage, 1796, p.46. So, I think SJ remembered the speech of the "noble Lord" from his first London/Greenwich sojourn in the summer of 1737, perhaps from reading the London and Gentleman's Magazines in coffeehouses, and added the new headword ridiculer above the entry for ridiculous when editing the 1773 Dict. The Chesterfield defense of press freedom would have been in line with SJ's, or perhaps influenced his views at the time.]
- Fog's Weekly Journal No. 5 as found in The London Magazine, July 1737; ridiculer (1773 Dict.: The ridiculer shall make only himself ridiculous. Earl of Chesterfield.) See the last line of p.378 and the first line of p. 379 in the London Magazine images below.
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