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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... understanding is alive only to the useful and the profitable : he never lives for what is merely gracious , courteous , and ornamental . His faculties seem to be drenched and slackened by the eternal fogs in which he resides ; he is ...
... understanding is alive only to the useful and the profitable : he never lives for what is merely gracious , courteous , and ornamental . His faculties seem to be drenched and slackened by the eternal fogs in which he resides ; he is ...
211. oldal
... understanding , a variety of delicate rules which can result only from such sort of meditation ; and it gradually subjects the most impetuous feelings to patient examina- tion and wise control : it inures the youthful mind to ...
... understanding , a variety of delicate rules which can result only from such sort of meditation ; and it gradually subjects the most impetuous feelings to patient examina- tion and wise control : it inures the youthful mind to ...
216. oldal
... understanding of Aristotle , equally vast , perhaps , and equally original , we are in- debted for fifteen hundred years of quibbling and igno- rance ; in which the earth fell under the tyranny of words , and philosophers quarrelled ...
... understanding of Aristotle , equally vast , perhaps , and equally original , we are in- debted for fifteen hundred years of quibbling and igno- rance ; in which the earth fell under the tyranny of words , and philosophers quarrelled ...
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