Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithRedfield, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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... manner of Lucretius on the systems of Plato , Descartes and Newton . * He received his degree of Master of Arts , in 1797 , and was the same year called to the bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn . It was also the year of his ...
... manner of Lucretius on the systems of Plato , Descartes and Newton . * He received his degree of Master of Arts , in 1797 , and was the same year called to the bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn . It was also the year of his ...
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... manners and conversation , and the peculiarities of some of his intimates , he looked back upon this time with respect and affection . It is at least a proof that he had been well received . His pov- erty , united with his susceptible ...
... manners and conversation , and the peculiarities of some of his intimates , he looked back upon this time with respect and affection . It is at least a proof that he had been well received . His pov- erty , united with his susceptible ...
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... manner , in the Preface to his collected writings , that his biographers will generally be compelled to repeat the passage : — " The principles of the French Revolution were then fully afloat , and it is impossible to conceive a more ...
... manner , in the Preface to his collected writings , that his biographers will generally be compelled to repeat the passage : — " The principles of the French Revolution were then fully afloat , and it is impossible to conceive a more ...
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... manner , a torrent of words , and an impudence scarcely credible in this pru- dent age . Still , in justice to myself , I must say there were some good things in them . But good and bad are all gone . " He did not publish them at the ...
... manner , a torrent of words , and an impudence scarcely credible in this pru- dent age . Still , in justice to myself , I must say there were some good things in them . But good and bad are all gone . " He did not publish them at the ...
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... manners of the two sages were , in many things , not unlike . To the domestic sketches of Foston , must be added , as a pend- ant , this pencilling , by Lady Holland , of " glorified " Combe Florey : - " I long to give some sketches of ...
... manners of the two sages were , in many things , not unlike . To the domestic sketches of Foston , must be added , as a pend- ant , this pencilling , by Lady Holland , of " glorified " Combe Florey : - " I long to give some sketches of ...
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admiration American animal appears beautiful believe bishops called Catholic character church clergy clergyman cloth Combe Florey common dear death delight dinner Dugald Stewart Edinburgh Review England English evil excite father feeling Foston genius gentleman give habit happiness heart HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT Heslington Holland House honour Horner human humour Ireland Jeffrey justice knowledge labour Lady Holland Lady Holland's Memoir laugh letter live London look Lord Holland Luttrell Mackintosh Madame Madame de Staël mankind manner mean mind misery moral nature never object opinion passed passions person pleasure political poor preach Price $1 reason reform relation of ideas rich Rogers sense sermon Sir James Mackintosh society spirit sublime Sydney Smith talents talk Talleyrand taste things thought tion truth understanding virtue whig whole wisdom witty women write young
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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.