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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... nature . GOOD FEELING . To bring a large twelfth - cake to a child , is good nature ; to give him education , support and protection , though he have no natural claim upon you , is compassion , and the summit of good feeling . STRENGTH ...
... nature . GOOD FEELING . To bring a large twelfth - cake to a child , is good nature ; to give him education , support and protection , though he have no natural claim upon you , is compassion , and the summit of good feeling . STRENGTH ...
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... NATURE . THERE is no degree of disguise , or distortion , which human nature may not be made to assume from habit ; it grows in every direction in which it is trained , and accommodates itself to every circumstance which caprice or ...
... NATURE . THERE is no degree of disguise , or distortion , which human nature may not be made to assume from habit ; it grows in every direction in which it is trained , and accommodates itself to every circumstance which caprice or ...
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... Nature speaks her genuine feelings ; and , as at the last night of Troy , when Venus illuminated the darkness , Eneas saw the gods themselves at work , -so may we , when the blaze of passion is flung upon man's nature , mark in him the ...
... Nature speaks her genuine feelings ; and , as at the last night of Troy , when Venus illuminated the darkness , Eneas saw the gods themselves at work , -so may we , when the blaze of passion is flung upon man's nature , mark in him the ...
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