Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithRedfield, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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9. oldal
... passion for foreign travel , and a mania , not a little destruc- tive to his finances , for building and altering country - houses in vari- ous parts of England . He married a lady of beauty and accom- plishments , Miss Olier , of ...
... passion for foreign travel , and a mania , not a little destruc- tive to his finances , for building and altering country - houses in vari- ous parts of England . He married a lady of beauty and accom- plishments , Miss Olier , of ...
65. oldal
... passion for government is made to appear a virtue in excess . " Here it is , " Smith exclaims , citing a charge of rashness against the Bishop's classical emendations , " qualis ab incepto . He begins with Eschylus , and ends with the ...
... passion for government is made to appear a virtue in excess . " Here it is , " Smith exclaims , citing a charge of rashness against the Bishop's classical emendations , " qualis ab incepto . He begins with Eschylus , and ends with the ...
108. oldal
... passions ; but in a studious arrrangement of sonorous , exotic , and sesquipedal words : a very ancient error , which corrupts the style of young , and wearies the patience of sensible men . In some of his combinations of words the ...
... passions ; but in a studious arrrangement of sonorous , exotic , and sesquipedal words : a very ancient error , which corrupts the style of young , and wearies the patience of sensible men . In some of his combinations of words the ...
109. oldal
... passions . A mineralogical traveller will hardly fall fouler upon the granite and the feldspar of other countries than his own ; a botanist will not conceal its non - descripts ; and an agricultural tourist will faithfully detail the ...
... passions . A mineralogical traveller will hardly fall fouler upon the granite and the feldspar of other countries than his own ; a botanist will not conceal its non - descripts ; and an agricultural tourist will faithfully detail the ...
110. oldal
Sydney Smith Evert Augustus Duyckinck. 110 CAUSES OF ERROR . he sees shocks some passion or flatters it ; and he is perpetually seduced to distort facts , so as to render them agreeable to his sys- tem and his feelings ! Books of travels ...
Sydney Smith Evert Augustus Duyckinck. 110 CAUSES OF ERROR . he sees shocks some passion or flatters it ; and he is perpetually seduced to distort facts , so as to render them agreeable to his sys- tem and his feelings ! Books of travels ...
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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.