Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithWiddleton, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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25. oldal
... justice and benevolence , as distin- guished from ceremonial devotion , from fanaticism , and from the- ology . It was forcibly distinguished by that liberality of senti- ment , and that boldness of eloquence , which do so much credit ...
... justice and benevolence , as distin- guished from ceremonial devotion , from fanaticism , and from the- ology . It was forcibly distinguished by that liberality of senti- ment , and that boldness of eloquence , which do so much credit ...
36. oldal
... justice to myself , I must say there were some good things in them . But good and bad are all gone . " He did not publish them at the time or afterward . Resorting to them as a quarry , he drew forth some passages on education for his ...
... justice to myself , I must say there were some good things in them . But good and bad are all gone . " He did not publish them at the time or afterward . Resorting to them as a quarry , he drew forth some passages on education for his ...
40. oldal
... justice and judgment in the minds of well - disposed but bigoted and unthinking Englishmen . The vehicle chosen for the discussion , a series of expostulatory letters on the affairs of the day , addressed by a man of the world to a ...
... justice and judgment in the minds of well - disposed but bigoted and unthinking Englishmen . The vehicle chosen for the discussion , a series of expostulatory letters on the affairs of the day , addressed by a man of the world to a ...
56. oldal
... justice's justice . It is of positive value that we have this account of his own management in matters of rural police as a Justice of the Peace : - " He set vigorously to work to study Blackstone , and made himself master of as much ...
... justice's justice . It is of positive value that we have this account of his own management in matters of rural police as a Justice of the Peace : - " He set vigorously to work to study Blackstone , and made himself master of as much ...
92. oldal
... justice to the society of his age , to remind the reader , that there were brilliant thinkers and writers outside of the charmed circle and visiting list of Holland House , of whose existence we are scarcely reminded in the letters and ...
... justice to the society of his age , to remind the reader , that there were brilliant thinkers and writers outside of the charmed circle and visiting list of Holland House , of whose existence we are scarcely reminded in the letters and ...
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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...