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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36. oldal
... begin to improve ; and all this , we are afraid , is only to be accomplished , in the first instance , by some great conqueror . We sympathise , therefore , with the victories of the King of Ashantee — and feel ourselves , for the first ...
... begin to improve ; and all this , we are afraid , is only to be accomplished , in the first instance , by some great conqueror . We sympathise , therefore , with the victories of the King of Ashantee — and feel ourselves , for the first ...
87. oldal
... begin with him at six years of age , and never quit him till he is twenty ; making him conjugate and decline for life and death ; and so teaching him to estimate his progress in real wisdom as he can scan the verses of the Greek ...
... begin with him at six years of age , and never quit him till he is twenty ; making him conjugate and decline for life and death ; and so teaching him to estimate his progress in real wisdom as he can scan the verses of the Greek ...
109. oldal
... begin with living in pig- styes . The king or the priest first gets out of them ; then the noble , then the pauper , in proportion as each class becomes more and more opulent . Better tastes arise from better circumstances ; and the ...
... begin with living in pig- styes . The king or the priest first gets out of them ; then the noble , then the pauper , in proportion as each class becomes more and more opulent . Better tastes arise from better circumstances ; and the ...
113. oldal
... begin with O or Mac . The violent death of Smith , Green or Thomson , would throw the neighbourhood into convulsions , and the regular forms would be adhered to- but little would be really thought of the death of anybody called O ...
... begin with O or Mac . The violent death of Smith , Green or Thomson , would throw the neighbourhood into convulsions , and the regular forms would be adhered to- but little would be really thought of the death of anybody called O ...
138. oldal
... begin upon Ireland before the soup was finished , go on through fish , turkey , and saddle of mutton , and never end till the last thimbleful of claret had passed down the throat of the incredulous Haddington : but there they sit , week ...
... begin upon Ireland before the soup was finished , go on through fish , turkey , and saddle of mutton , and never end till the last thimbleful of claret had passed down the throat of the incredulous Haddington : but there they sit , week ...
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