The Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith: A Selection of the Most Memorable Passages in His Writings ConversationsLongmans, Green, 1865 - 355 oldal |
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... [ Memoir . ] PRESENT AND FUTURE . A MAN who was sure to die a death of torture in ten years would think more of the most trifling gratification or calamity of the day than of his torn flesh and twisted nerves years hence .- [ Memoir ...
... [ Memoir . ] PRESENT AND FUTURE . A MAN who was sure to die a death of torture in ten years would think more of the most trifling gratification or calamity of the day than of his torn flesh and twisted nerves years hence .- [ Memoir ...
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... [ Memoir . ] ADVICE TO A LADY . KEEP as much as possible in the grand and common road of life ; patent educations or habits seldom succeed . Depend upon it , men set more value on the cultivated minds than on the accomplishments of women ...
... [ Memoir . ] ADVICE TO A LADY . KEEP as much as possible in the grand and common road of life ; patent educations or habits seldom succeed . Depend upon it , men set more value on the cultivated minds than on the accomplishments of women ...
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... [ Memoir . ] A ONE - BOOK MAN . SOME men have only one book in them ; others , a library .- [ Memoir . ] SHAKES OF THE HAND . THERE is nothing more characteristic than shakes of the hand . I have classified them . There is the high ...
... [ Memoir . ] A ONE - BOOK MAN . SOME men have only one book in them ; others , a library .- [ Memoir . ] SHAKES OF THE HAND . THERE is nothing more characteristic than shakes of the hand . I have classified them . There is the high ...
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