Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithWiddleton, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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... father , was a man of curious talents and impulses , with a passion for foreign travel , and a mania , not a little destruc- tive to his finances , for building and altering country - houses in vari- ous parts of England . He married a ...
... father , was a man of curious talents and impulses , with a passion for foreign travel , and a mania , not a little destruc- tive to his finances , for building and altering country - houses in vari- ous parts of England . He married a ...
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... the artist Dormita ! Dormirens similo Far De Cassy hoe conatio ( Forte audacia ) , Ulturem poema , seat near was inces- my father these at- to exhaus " Some fine and eloquent Latin lines Dea decease , are printed in Lady Holland's Meiz.
... the artist Dormita ! Dormirens similo Far De Cassy hoe conatio ( Forte audacia ) , Ulturem poema , seat near was inces- my father these at- to exhaus " Some fine and eloquent Latin lines Dea decease , are printed in Lady Holland's Meiz.
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... father's residence at Bath . Delicate in constitution , ill health did not obscure the good temper and amiability of her disposition . Her brother Sydney spoke of her as one whom he would have cultivated as a friend , if nature had not ...
... father's residence at Bath . Delicate in constitution , ill health did not obscure the good temper and amiability of her disposition . Her brother Sydney spoke of her as one whom he would have cultivated as a friend , if nature had not ...
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... father Sydney , “ I have heard him speak with horrour of the misery of the years he spent at Winchester . He suffered there many years of misery and positive starvation . " Courtenay was compelled by ill usage to run away twice from the ...
... father Sydney , “ I have heard him speak with horrour of the misery of the years he spent at Winchester . He suffered there many years of misery and positive starvation . " Courtenay was compelled by ill usage to run away twice from the ...
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... father at one time meditated sending him in the track of his brothers to the East , in the mercantile line as supercargo to China ; the youth himself naturally thought of carrying his powers of mind , well suited to the profession , to ...
... father at one time meditated sending him in the track of his brothers to the East , in the mercantile line as supercargo to China ; the youth himself naturally thought of carrying his powers of mind , well suited to the profession , to ...
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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...