The Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith: A Selection of the Most Memorable Passages in His Writings and ConversationLongmans, Green, and Company, 1869 - 355 oldal |
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... believe the amount of ignorance , prejudice , intolerance , and cant against which he contended , and over which he triumphed . But even when the questions which were fought out in the earlier portion of this century , with all the fury ...
... believe the amount of ignorance , prejudice , intolerance , and cant against which he contended , and over which he triumphed . But even when the questions which were fought out in the earlier portion of this century , with all the fury ...
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... believe they can ripen fruit ; and , to be candid , I must own in remarkably warm summers I have tasted peaches that made most excellent pickles ; and it is upon record that at the siege of Perth , on one occasion , the ammunition ...
... believe they can ripen fruit ; and , to be candid , I must own in remarkably warm summers I have tasted peaches that made most excellent pickles ; and it is upon record that at the siege of Perth , on one occasion , the ammunition ...
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... believe she might acquire liberty with as much facility as she could acquire Switzerland or Naples .— [ E . R. 1803. ] SUDDEN FREEDOM . A NATION grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigour of a man , who ...
... believe she might acquire liberty with as much facility as she could acquire Switzerland or Naples .— [ E . R. 1803. ] SUDDEN FREEDOM . A NATION grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigour of a man , who ...
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... believe that a higher sort of God takes care of the whites , and that they are left to the care of an inferior species of deities . Still the black kings and black nobility are to go to the upper gods after death , where they are to ...
... believe that a higher sort of God takes care of the whites , and that they are left to the care of an inferior species of deities . Still the black kings and black nobility are to go to the upper gods after death , where they are to ...
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... believe , are the first persons who have discarded the tailor in the administration of justice , and his auxiliary the barber- two persons of endless importance in the codes and pandects of Europe . A judge administers justice , without ...
... believe , are the first persons who have discarded the tailor in the administration of justice , and his auxiliary the barber- two persons of endless importance in the codes and pandects of Europe . A judge administers justice , without ...
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