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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... VIRTUE . Ir is of great importance to keep public opinion on the side of virtue . To their authorised and legal cor- rectors , mankind are , on common occasions , ready enough to submit : but there is something in the self- erection of ...
... VIRTUE . Ir is of great importance to keep public opinion on the side of virtue . To their authorised and legal cor- rectors , mankind are , on common occasions , ready enough to submit : but there is something in the self- erection of ...
278. oldal
... VIRTUE . what , I suppose , no soldier in the whole army would have dared to have done ; - he slept for three nights in the sheets of a patient who had died of the plague ! If the question had been to encounter noisy , riotous , death ...
... VIRTUE . what , I suppose , no soldier in the whole army would have dared to have done ; - he slept for three nights in the sheets of a patient who had died of the plague ! If the question had been to encounter noisy , riotous , death ...
279. oldal
... virtue without being a virtue ; and because it gives us false notions of what the real virtue is . THE SHAME OF THE SOUL . THAT dread of shame , which virtue and wisdom teach , is , to act so , from the cradle to the tomb , that no man ...
... virtue without being a virtue ; and because it gives us false notions of what the real virtue is . THE SHAME OF THE SOUL . THAT dread of shame , which virtue and wisdom teach , is , to act so , from the cradle to the tomb , that no man ...
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