The Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith: A Selection of the Most Memorable Passages in His Writings and Conversation |
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There were filthy coffee - houses instead of elegant clubs . Game could not be bought . Quarrels about uncommuted tithes were endless . The corruption of Parliament , before Reform , infamous . There were no banks to receive the savings ...
There were filthy coffee - houses instead of elegant clubs . Game could not be bought . Quarrels about uncommuted tithes were endless . The corruption of Parliament , before Reform , infamous . There were no banks to receive the savings ...
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A NATION grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigour of a man , who would take a drawn sword for his rattle , and set the house in a blaze , that he might chuckle over the splendour .- [ E . R. 1803. ] ...
A NATION grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigour of a man , who would take a drawn sword for his rattle , and set the house in a blaze , that he might chuckle over the splendour .- [ E . R. 1803. ] ...
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Then comes a man who set his house on fire , to cheat the Phoenix Office ; and , lastly , that most glaring of all human villains , a poacher , driven from Europe , wife and child , by thirty lords of manors , at the Quarter Sessions ...
Then comes a man who set his house on fire , to cheat the Phoenix Office ; and , lastly , that most glaring of all human villains , a poacher , driven from Europe , wife and child , by thirty lords of manors , at the Quarter Sessions ...
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... that they should 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 distant colonies .- [ E . R. 1823. ] CEYLON IN 1803 .
... that they should 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 distant colonies .- [ E . R. 1823. ] CEYLON IN 1803 .
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-pestering the House of Commons with their ignorance and folly , and impeding the business of the country ? There is no end of such questions . So we will not enter into the metaphysics of the toucan . R. 1826. ] - [ E . - IN SUSPENSE .
-pestering the House of Commons with their ignorance and folly , and impeding the business of the country ? There is no end of such questions . So we will not enter into the metaphysics of the toucan . R. 1826. ] - [ E . - IN SUSPENSE .
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| Cím | The Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith: A Selection of the Most Memorable Passages in His Writings and Conversation |
| Szerző | Sydney Smith |
| Kiadás | újranyomás |
| Kiadó | Longmans, Green, and Company, 1869 |
| Eredeti forrása | Harvard Egyetem |
| Digitalizálva: | 2009. jan. 23. |
| Terjedelem | 355 oldal |
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