Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithWiddleton, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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... American Debts , " 1843 ; " A Fragment on the Irish Roman Catholic Church , " 1845 ; " Letters on Railway Management , " and other topics , to the Morning Chronicle ; Articles in the Edinburgh Review not collected in his " Works ...
... American Debts , " 1843 ; " A Fragment on the Irish Roman Catholic Church , " 1845 ; " Letters on Railway Management , " and other topics , to the Morning Chronicle ; Articles in the Edinburgh Review not collected in his " Works ...
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... Miscellanies of much interest , are included which are not to be met with in any previous American collection of the author's works . NEW YORK , May 20 , 1856 . CONTENTS . BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR • PASSAGES FROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
... Miscellanies of much interest , are included which are not to be met with in any previous American collection of the author's works . NEW YORK , May 20 , 1856 . CONTENTS . BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR • PASSAGES FROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
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... AMERICAN DEBTS 353 A FRAGMENT ON THE IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 363 LETTER ON THE CHARACTER OF SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH 379 RECOLLECTIONS OF FRANCIS HORNER . 387 PASSAGES FROM LETTERS 392 TABLE TALK - ANECDOTES 417 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR ...
... AMERICAN DEBTS 353 A FRAGMENT ON THE IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 363 LETTER ON THE CHARACTER OF SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH 379 RECOLLECTIONS OF FRANCIS HORNER . 387 PASSAGES FROM LETTERS 392 TABLE TALK - ANECDOTES 417 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR ...
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... American Bishop Ravenscroft , one of the most esteemed divines of the Protestant Episcopal Church . Sydney Smith , but little indebted to the books of others for the honours of his writings , cannot be supposed to have practised any ...
... American Bishop Ravenscroft , one of the most esteemed divines of the Protestant Episcopal Church . Sydney Smith , but little indebted to the books of others for the honours of his writings , cannot be supposed to have practised any ...
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... American Count Rumford , in the foundation of the society . The success was immediate . An audience assembled , composed of the most in- telligent society of the metropolis , large in numbers for a popular lecturer in London even at the ...
... American Count Rumford , in the foundation of the society . The success was immediate . An audience assembled , composed of the most in- telligent society of the metropolis , large in numbers for a popular lecturer in London even at the ...
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414. oldal - O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
187. oldal - The schoolboy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road — and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
189. oldal - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?
397. oldal - Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound; If chance with nymph-like step fair virgin pass, What pleasing seemed, for her now pleases more, She most, and in her look sums all delight.
65. oldal - Russell; but his worst failure is that he is utterly ignorant of all moral fear; there is nothing he would not undertake. I believe he would perform the operation for the stone - build St. Peter's - or assume (with or without ten minutes...
187. oldal - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man — taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal — on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice— on the brass nails of the coffin, and ihe ribands of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
101. oldal - That he was not scrupulously pious in some part of his life, is known by many idle and indecent applications of sentences taken from the Scriptures ; a mode of merriment which a good man dreads for its profaneness, and a witty man disdains for its easiness and vulgarity.
396. oldal - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms...
430. oldal - His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
224. oldal - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...