Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith |
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These are his " Two Volumes of Sermons , " 1809 ; the col- lection of his " Works " ( embracing articles from the Edinburgh Review , the Plymley Letters , and other papers ) , 4 vols , 1839-40 ; a posthumous volume , " Sermons preached ...
These are his " Two Volumes of Sermons , " 1809 ; the col- lection of his " Works " ( embracing articles from the Edinburgh Review , the Plymley Letters , and other papers ) , 4 vols , 1839-40 ; a posthumous volume , " Sermons preached ...
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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 SKETCHES.
... 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 SKETCHES.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR PASSAGES FROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW SKETCHES OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY PASSAGES FROM SERMONS PAGE 9 . 107 195 256 ESSAYS AND SKETCHES • • 278 PASSAGES FROM PETER PLYMLEY LETTERS 297 REFORM SPEECHES LETTERS TO ARCHDEACON ...
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR PASSAGES FROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW SKETCHES OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY PASSAGES FROM SERMONS PAGE 9 . 107 195 256 ESSAYS AND SKETCHES • • 278 PASSAGES FROM PETER PLYMLEY LETTERS 297 REFORM SPEECHES LETTERS TO ARCHDEACON ...
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Years after , in an article in the Edinburgh Review , he wrote against the cruel and oppressive system of fagging pursued in such places ; the false notion of hardening youth by exposing it to privations which were positive evils ...
Years after , in an article in the Edinburgh Review , he wrote against the cruel and oppressive system of fagging pursued in such places ; the false notion of hardening youth by exposing it to privations which were positive evils ...
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He published an article in the Edinburgh Review for June , 1816 , on the Constitution of Parliament , which was highly ... of the Independence of Scotland , " and a reply to Lingard , whose history he had reviewed in the Edinburgh .
He published an article in the Edinburgh Review for June , 1816 , on the Constitution of Parliament , which was highly ... of the Independence of Scotland , " and a reply to Lingard , whose history he had reviewed in the Edinburgh .
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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...
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| Cím | Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith |
| Szerző | Sydney Smith |
| Kiadó | Widdleton, 1856 |
| Eredeti forrása | a New York-i Közkönyvtár |
| Digitalizálva: | 2005. nov. 15. |
| Terjedelem | 458 oldal |
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