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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... hear a shrill female voice from the fifth flat shriek out , " Wha's chapping at the door ? " which is presently opened by a lassie with short petticoats , bare legs , and thick ankles . My Scotch servants bargained they were not to have ...
... hear a shrill female voice from the fifth flat shriek out , " Wha's chapping at the door ? " which is presently opened by a lassie with short petticoats , bare legs , and thick ankles . My Scotch servants bargained they were not to have ...
40. oldal
... hear , feel , smell , or taste . taxes upon warmth , light , and locomotion - taxes on every thing on earth , and the waters under the earth on every thing that comes from abroad , or is grown at home taxes on the raw material - taxes ...
... hear , feel , smell , or taste . taxes upon warmth , light , and locomotion - taxes on every thing on earth , and the waters under the earth on every thing that comes from abroad , or is grown at home taxes on the raw material - taxes ...
44. oldal
... hear a word from anybody which may occasion to him the necessity of replying . It is not so much that Mr. Bull disdains to talk , as that Mr. Bull has nothing to say . His forefathers have been out of spirits for six or seven hundred ...
... hear a word from anybody which may occasion to him the necessity of replying . It is not so much that Mr. Bull disdains to talk , as that Mr. Bull has nothing to say . His forefathers have been out of spirits for six or seven hundred ...
50. oldal
... hear that the last farthing is paid to the last creditor , I will appear on my knees at the bar of the Pennsylvanian Senate in the plumeopicean robe of American controversy . Each Conscript Jona- than shall trickle over me a few drops ...
... hear that the last farthing is paid to the last creditor , I will appear on my knees at the bar of the Pennsylvanian Senate in the plumeopicean robe of American controversy . Each Conscript Jona- than shall trickle over me a few drops ...
63. oldal
... hear the licentious plays of Congreve , but wicked to hear Henry the Fifth , or the School for Scandal ; it is not only dissipated to run about to all the parties in London and Edinburgh , but dancing is not fit for a being who is ...
... hear the licentious plays of Congreve , but wicked to hear Henry the Fifth , or the School for Scandal ; it is not only dissipated to run about to all the parties in London and Edinburgh , but dancing is not fit for a being who is ...
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