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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... 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 of the poor . The Poor ...
... 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 of the poor . The Poor ...
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... house in a blaze , that he might chuckle over the splendour .- [ E . R. 1803. ] VALUE OF ELECTIONS . THE only foundation of political liberty is the spirit of the people and the only circumstance which makes a lively impression upon ...
... house in a blaze , that he might chuckle over the splendour .- [ E . R. 1803. ] VALUE OF ELECTIONS . THE only foundation of political liberty is the spirit of the people and the only circumstance which makes a lively impression upon ...
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... 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 , for killing a partridge . Now ...
... 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 , for killing a partridge . Now ...
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... WHAT two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia ? -what event more awfully important to an English colony , than the erection of its first brew- house ? - [ E . R. 1823. ] 24 CEYLON IN 1803 . SELF - GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA.
... WHAT two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia ? -what event more awfully important to an English colony , than the erection of its first brew- house ? - [ E . R. 1823. ] 24 CEYLON IN 1803 . SELF - GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA.
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... House of Commons will permit , in the governors of their dis- tant colonies . [ E . R. 1823. ] CEYLON IN 1803 . THE geographical figure of our possessions in Ceylon is whimsical enough ; we possess the whole of the sea - coast , and ...
... House of Commons will permit , in the governors of their dis- tant colonies . [ E . R. 1823. ] CEYLON IN 1803 . THE geographical figure of our possessions in Ceylon is whimsical enough ; we possess the whole of the sea - coast , and ...
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