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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When mankind are prevented from daily quarrelling and fighting , they first begin to improve ; and all this , we are afraid , is only to be accomplished , in the first instance , by some great conqueror .
When mankind are prevented from daily quarrelling and fighting , they first begin to improve ; and all this , we are afraid , is only to be accomplished , in the first instance , by some great conqueror .
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... 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 ...
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ALL degrees of all nations begin with living in pigstyes . 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 ...
ALL degrees of all nations begin with living in pigstyes . 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 ...
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118 influence of fear or anger , would think it no great crime to put to death people whose names begin with O or Mac . The violent death of Smith , Green or Thomson , would throw the neighbourhood into convulsions , and the regular ...
118 influence of fear or anger , would think it no great crime to put to death people whose names begin with O or Mac . The violent death of Smith , Green or Thomson , would throw the neighbourhood into convulsions , and the regular ...
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... and met my col → leagues once a week to eat birds and beasts , and to talk over the state of the world , I should begin upon Ireland before the soup was finished , go on through fish , turkey , and saddle of mutton , and never end ...
... and met my col → leagues once a week to eat birds and beasts , and to talk over the state of the world , I should begin upon Ireland before the soup was finished , go on through fish , turkey , and saddle of mutton , and never end ...
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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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