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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... Lives could have no Counsel - Lord Eldon and the Court of Chancery pressed heavily upon mankind— Libel was punished by the most cruel and vindictive imprisonments - the principles of Political Economy were little understood - the Law of ...
... Lives could have no Counsel - Lord Eldon and the Court of Chancery pressed heavily upon mankind— Libel was punished by the most cruel and vindictive imprisonments - the principles of Political Economy were little understood - the Law of ...
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... live for a century in that state of perilous uncer- tainty in which every revolutionised nation remains , before rational liberty becomes feeling and habit , as well as law , and is written in the hearts of men as plainly as in the ...
... live for a century in that state of perilous uncer- tainty in which every revolutionised nation remains , before rational liberty becomes feeling and habit , as well as law , and is written in the hearts of men as plainly as in the ...
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... lives has necessarily impressed the habits of business . The evil of this is that the title descends to their posterity , without the talents and the utility that procured it ; and the dignity of the peerage is impaired by the increase ...
... lives has necessarily impressed the habits of business . The evil of this is that the title descends to their posterity , without the talents and the utility that procured it ; and the dignity of the peerage is impaired by the increase ...
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... . To sit down to dinner with men who have not been tried for their lives is a luxury which cannot be enjoyed in such a country . It is entirely out of the question 20 DINNERS AT SYDNEY . - TRANSPORTATION . and persons.
... . To sit down to dinner with men who have not been tried for their lives is a luxury which cannot be enjoyed in such a country . It is entirely out of the question 20 DINNERS AT SYDNEY . - TRANSPORTATION . and persons.
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... live under the simplicity and convenience of despotism— such modified despotism ( we mean ) as a British House of Commons will permit , in the governors of their dis- tant colonies . [ E . R. 1823. ] CEYLON IN 1803 . THE geographical ...
... live under the simplicity and convenience of despotism— such modified despotism ( we mean ) as a British House of Commons will permit , in the governors of their dis- tant colonies . [ E . R. 1823. ] CEYLON IN 1803 . THE geographical ...
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