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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... ideas suddenly discovered . And if this account of bulls be just , they are ( as might have been supposed ) the very reverse of wit ; for as wit dis- covers real relations that are not apparent , bulls admit apparent relations that are ...
... ideas suddenly discovered . And if this account of bulls be just , they are ( as might have been supposed ) the very reverse of wit ; for as wit dis- covers real relations that are not apparent , bulls admit apparent relations that are ...
226. oldal
... ideas of memory are converted into ideas of conception . If a poet writes two or three hundred verses , very many of the combinations of words , perhaps whole verses , will be faithful copies of what he has once remembered , and which ...
... ideas of memory are converted into ideas of conception . If a poet writes two or three hundred verses , very many of the combinations of words , perhaps whole verses , will be faithful copies of what he has once remembered , and which ...
274. oldal
... IDEAS . WHEN two ideas have , by any accident , been joined together frequently in the understanding , the one idea has , ever after , the strongest tendency to bring back the other : for instance , the celebrated Descartes was very ...
... IDEAS . WHEN two ideas have , by any accident , been joined together frequently in the understanding , the one idea has , ever after , the strongest tendency to bring back the other : for instance , the celebrated Descartes was very ...
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