Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithWiddleton, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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78. oldal
... mankind were not solely employed in observing him , as all young people think , and that shamming was of no use , the world being very clear - sighted , and soon estimating a man at his just value . This cured me , and I determined to ...
... mankind were not solely employed in observing him , as all young people think , and that shamming was of no use , the world being very clear - sighted , and soon estimating a man at his just value . This cured me , and I determined to ...
120. oldal
... mankind , who , from a range of seven or eight hundred years , which they enjoyed before the flood , were confined to their present period of seventy or eighty years . This epoch in the history of man gave birth to the twofold division ...
... mankind , who , from a range of seven or eight hundred years , which they enjoyed before the flood , were confined to their present period of seventy or eighty years . This epoch in the history of man gave birth to the twofold division ...
129. oldal
... mankind ? Nothing would so much tend to bring classical literature within proper bounds , as a steady and invariable appeal to these tests in our appreciation of all human knowledge . The puffed - up pedant would collapse into his ...
... mankind ? Nothing would so much tend to bring classical literature within proper bounds , as a steady and invariable appeal to these tests in our appreciation of all human knowledge . The puffed - up pedant would collapse into his ...
134. oldal
... mankind — as if one of the greatest objects of human wisdom had not at all times been to turn the properties of matter to the use of man : and then he asks , if ministration to bodily wants is the test of merit in any science , and a ...
... mankind — as if one of the greatest objects of human wisdom had not at all times been to turn the properties of matter to the use of man : and then he asks , if ministration to bodily wants is the test of merit in any science , and a ...
135. oldal
... mankind , and with the improvement of manufactures ; and though we are aware that his first guess will be , that the invention of these two substances has made it more easy to drink port wine , and to kill partridges , yet we can assure ...
... mankind , and with the improvement of manufactures ; and though we are aware that his first guess will be , that the invention of these two substances has made it more easy to drink port wine , and to kill partridges , yet we can assure ...
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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...