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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... keep my smallclothes in their proper place , for braces were unknown . If I had the gout , there was no colchicum . If I was bilious , there was no calomel . If I was attacked by ague , there was no quinine . There were filthy coffee ...
... keep my smallclothes in their proper place , for braces were unknown . If I had the gout , there was no colchicum . If I was bilious , there was no calomel . If I was attacked by ague , there was no quinine . There were filthy coffee ...
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... originally peopled .- [ E . R. 1803. ] ATTRACTIONS OF AUSTRALIA . A LONDON thief , clothed in kangaroo's skins , lodged under the bark of the dwarf eucalyptus , and keeping с 18 EMANCIPATED CONVICTS . sheep , fourteen thousand miles from.
... originally peopled .- [ E . R. 1803. ] ATTRACTIONS OF AUSTRALIA . A LONDON thief , clothed in kangaroo's skins , lodged under the bark of the dwarf eucalyptus , and keeping с 18 EMANCIPATED CONVICTS . sheep , fourteen thousand miles from.
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... keep them out , is seized with such an affection for those who baffle his defensive artifices , that he can on no account suffer them to depart . He has been known to detain a string of four or five Dutch embassies , till various ...
... keep them out , is seized with such an affection for those who baffle his defensive artifices , that he can on no account suffer them to depart . He has been known to detain a string of four or five Dutch embassies , till various ...
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... keeping out the blasts of heaven , which howled through those garments in every direction , and of aspiring hereafter to greater strength of seam , and more perfect continuity of cloth . But for the safety of the titled orders we had no ...
... keeping out the blasts of heaven , which howled through those garments in every direction , and of aspiring hereafter to greater strength of seam , and more perfect continuity of cloth . But for the safety of the titled orders we had no ...
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... keep sacred . [ E . R. 1808. ] MODERN FANATICISM . THE fanaticism so prevalent in the present day , is one of those evils from which society is never wholly exempt : but which bursts out at different periods , with peculiar violence ...
... keep sacred . [ E . R. 1808. ] MODERN FANATICISM . THE fanaticism so prevalent in the present day , is one of those evils from which society is never wholly exempt : but which bursts out at different periods , with peculiar violence ...
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