Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithRedfield, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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22. oldal
... things , I said many ! Saul slew his thousands , David his tens of thousands . " Thirty years later , when Campbell was sixty , there is an entry in his Diary of a street rencontre with Sydney Smith , a passing glimpse of these ...
... things , I said many ! Saul slew his thousands , David his tens of thousands . " Thirty years later , when Campbell was sixty , there is an entry in his Diary of a street rencontre with Sydney Smith , a passing glimpse of these ...
36. oldal
... things in them . But good and bad are all gone . " He did not publish them at the time or afterward . Resorting to them as a quarry , he drew forth some passages on education for his arti- MERITS OF THE LECTURES . 37 cles in the ...
... things in them . But good and bad are all gone . " He did not publish them at the time or afterward . Resorting to them as a quarry , he drew forth some passages on education for his arti- MERITS OF THE LECTURES . 37 cles in the ...
44. oldal
... things had brought with them something of satiety , and they were relin- quished cheerfully , as he expresses it in a letter to Jeffrey , " for more quiet , more leisure , less expense and more space for his children , " while he adds ...
... things had brought with them something of satiety , and they were relin- quished cheerfully , as he expresses it in a letter to Jeffrey , " for more quiet , more leisure , less expense and more space for his children , " while he adds ...
61. oldal
... thing , and puts me at my ease for life . I asked for nothing - never did any thing shabby to procure preferment . These are pleasing recollections . My pleasure is greatly increased by the congratulations of good and excellent friends ...
... thing , and puts me at my ease for life . I asked for nothing - never did any thing shabby to procure preferment . These are pleasing recollections . My pleasure is greatly increased by the congratulations of good and excellent friends ...
62. oldal
... 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 these breakfasts , and the mode of life ...
... 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 these breakfasts , and the mode of life ...
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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.