Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithWiddleton, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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... never trod on the margin of the fearful precipice , journeyed over the silent wilderness , and gazed at the torrent hiding itself in the profound glen . He has never viewed Nature but as she is associated with human indus- try ; and is ...
... never trod on the margin of the fearful precipice , journeyed over the silent wilderness , and gazed at the torrent hiding itself in the profound glen . He has never viewed Nature but as she is associated with human indus- try ; and is ...
35. oldal
... never remember to have been excited by any other literary imposture . " * His friend Horner , who was in London , writes to Lady Mackintosh , at Bom- bay , that there were but two topics in London that winter , the young Roscius and the ...
... never remember to have been excited by any other literary imposture . " * His friend Horner , who was in London , writes to Lady Mackintosh , at Bom- bay , that there were but two topics in London that winter , the young Roscius and the ...
38. oldal
... never was a time in his life , apparently , when the social powers of Smith were not in requisition . He was eminently what Dr. Johnson said Sir John Hawkins was not , a clubable man . In after - life , in London , he became a member of ...
... never was a time in his life , apparently , when the social powers of Smith were not in requisition . He was eminently what Dr. Johnson said Sir John Hawkins was not , a clubable man . In after - life , in London , he became a member of ...
46. oldal
... never tired . The reply to Copleston was not over - delicate in its choice of terms . It was , in fact , a specimen of the old Edin- burgh swagger , relieved by some excellent passes of humour . While thus continuing his literary ...
... never tired . The reply to Copleston was not over - delicate in its choice of terms . It was , in fact , a specimen of the old Edin- burgh swagger , relieved by some excellent passes of humour . While thus continuing his literary ...
54. oldal
... never get a direct answer from them ; if you ask them even their own names , they always scratch their heads , and say , ' A's sur ai don't knaw , sir ; ' but I have brought Bunch to such perfec- tion , that she never hesitates now on ...
... never get a direct answer from them ; if you ask them even their own names , they always scratch their heads , and say , ' A's sur ai don't knaw , sir ; ' but I have brought Bunch to such perfec- tion , that she never hesitates now on ...
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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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