Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithWiddleton, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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... women toleration exercise of their understandings , and for the culture of their tale Sydney Smith . " Mrs. Jameson , in her " Ethical Fragments , " makes a acknowledgment : " See what he has done for humanity , for society , erty , for ...
... women toleration exercise of their understandings , and for the culture of their tale Sydney Smith . " Mrs. Jameson , in her " Ethical Fragments , " makes a acknowledgment : " See what he has done for humanity , for society , erty , for ...
10. oldal
... women toleration for the exercise of their understandings , and for the culture of their talents , as Sydney Smith . " Mrs. Jameson , in her " Ethical Fragments , " makes a similar acknowledgment : " See what he has done for humanity ...
... women toleration for the exercise of their understandings , and for the culture of their talents , as Sydney Smith . " Mrs. Jameson , in her " Ethical Fragments , " makes a similar acknowledgment : " See what he has done for humanity ...
18. oldal
... women , and children . This Netheravon was formerly a great lordship , and in the parish there were three considerable mansion - houses , besides the one near the church . " The letters of Sydney Smith , chiefly addressed to Mrs. Beach ...
... women , and children . This Netheravon was formerly a great lordship , and in the parish there were three considerable mansion - houses , besides the one near the church . " The letters of Sydney Smith , chiefly addressed to Mrs. Beach ...
45. oldal
... Women , Public Schools and the Universities , a Vindication of Fox's Historical Work , an account of the Walche- ren Expedition , and a paper on Indian affairs . " I am about , " he writes to Lady Holland , " to open the subject of ...
... Women , Public Schools and the Universities , a Vindication of Fox's Historical Work , an account of the Walche- ren Expedition , and a paper on Indian affairs . " I am about , " he writes to Lady Holland , " to open the subject of ...
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... woman's feeling for the details of do- mestic life , has given a genial sketch of this new flitting - it was in the spring of 1814 - with the accessories of character and homely incident . " It was a cold , bright March day , with a ...
... woman's feeling for the details of do- mestic life , has given a genial sketch of this new flitting - it was in the spring of 1814 - with the accessories of character and homely incident . " It was a cold , bright March day , with a ...
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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...