Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithWiddleton, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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... persons of marked character . Rob- ert Smith , the 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 ...
... persons of marked character . Rob- ert Smith , the 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 ...
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... persons with whom I became acquainted were , Lord Jeffrey , Lord Murray ( late Lord - Advocate for Scotland ) , and Lord Brougham ; all of them maintaining * Lady Holland's Memoir , fourth Eng . ed . i . , 52 . † Memoir and ...
... persons with whom I became acquainted were , Lord Jeffrey , Lord Murray ( late Lord - Advocate for Scotland ) , and Lord Brougham ; all of them maintaining * Lady Holland's Memoir , fourth Eng . ed . i . , 52 . † Memoir and ...
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... persons . This , though far below that of the company on any distinguished occasion of the kind in New York or Boston , of late years , was held to be an immense achievement . Ladies and philosophers were alike entrapped into admiration ...
... persons . This , though far below that of the company on any distinguished occasion of the kind in New York or Boston , of late years , was held to be an immense achievement . Ladies and philosophers were alike entrapped into admiration ...
54. oldal
... persons were , on one occasion , probably an average one , present . The portrait of Bunch , that important portion of the Foston family , is immortal ; a sketch from reality equal to the imagina- tion of Dickens . Mrs. Marcet , the ...
... persons were , on one occasion , probably an average one , present . The portrait of Bunch , that important portion of the Foston family , is immortal ; a sketch from reality equal to the imagina- tion of Dickens . Mrs. Marcet , the ...
66. oldal
... persons of independent incomes , who thus supply the gen- eral deficiency of means . Destroy these glittering emoluments , and the ground will be occupied by inferior men , low , badly edu- cated , and fanatical . " You will have a set ...
... persons of independent incomes , who thus supply the gen- eral deficiency of means . Destroy these glittering emoluments , and the ground will be occupied by inferior men , low , badly edu- cated , and fanatical . " You will have a set ...
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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...
Bibliográfiai információk
| 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 |
| Idézet exportálása | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |