Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithRedfield, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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... , his impression of the habits and conduct of the place fastened upon him a permanent dislike to that boasted institution of learning and manliness , the English public school . 16 WINCHESTER SCHOOL . Years after , in an article.
... , his impression of the habits and conduct of the place fastened upon him a permanent dislike to that boasted institution of learning and manliness , the English public school . 16 WINCHESTER SCHOOL . Years after , in an article.
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... habit of mind was to be , as his biographer , Lord Cockburn , has given the description , " generally in a state of lively , argu- mentative despair , " croaked dismally over the affair , before the Preface to Works of the Rev. Sydney ...
... habit of mind was to be , as his biographer , Lord Cockburn , has given the description , " generally in a state of lively , argu- mentative despair , " croaked dismally over the affair , before the Preface to Works of the Rev. Sydney ...
28. oldal
... habit of teaching had brought all his faculties promptly to the surface ; and he had , moreover , enjoyed , for several years , the sharp contests of the Edinburgh wits , to give the keenest edge to his understanding . In October , 1802 ...
... habit of teaching had brought all his faculties promptly to the surface ; and he had , moreover , enjoyed , for several years , the sharp contests of the Edinburgh wits , to give the keenest edge to his understanding . In October , 1802 ...
30. oldal
... habits of mind quali- fied him to enjoy the best points of the profession . Romilly and Mackintosh were among his acquaintances at the time , and he rapidly found his way into the brilliant circle of wits and diners- out who centred ...
... habits of mind quali- fied him to enjoy the best points of the profession . Romilly and Mackintosh were among his acquaintances at the time , and he rapidly found his way into the brilliant circle of wits and diners- out who centred ...
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... habit in the technical portions of his course , there was a wide field lying all around these intellectual barriers which he made entirely his own . This was in what may be called the practical moralities of his text -the quick , genial ...
... habit in the technical portions of his course , there was a wide field lying all around these intellectual barriers which he made entirely his own . This was in what may be called the practical moralities of his text -the quick , genial ...
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188. 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...
190. 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...
310. oldal - In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
188. oldal - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel. His virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
397. 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 Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
64. 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...
89. oldal - With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room.
188. 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.
187. oldal - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything 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...
431. 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.