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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Posterity will find it hard to comprehend or to believe the amount of ignorance , prejudice , intolerance , and cant against which he contended , and over which he triumphed . But even when the questions which were fought out in the ...
Posterity will find it hard to comprehend or to believe the amount of ignorance , prejudice , intolerance , and cant against which he contended , and over which he triumphed . But even when the questions which were fought out in the ...
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They would have you even believe they can ripen fruit ; and , to be candid , I must own in remarkably warm summers I have tasted peaches that made most excellent pickles ; and it is upon record that at the siege of Perth , on one ...
They would have you even believe they can ripen fruit ; and , to be candid , I must own in remarkably warm summers I have tasted peaches that made most excellent pickles ; and it is upon record that at the siege of Perth , on one ...
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... dreamed of by men who seem to measure the happiness and future grandeur of France by degrees of longitude and latitude , and who believe she might acquire liberty with as much facility as she could acquire Switzerland or Naples .
... dreamed of by men who seem to measure the happiness and future grandeur of France by degrees of longitude and latitude , and who believe she might acquire liberty with as much facility as she could acquire Switzerland or Naples .
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THE Ashantees believe that a higher sort of God takes care of the whites , and that they are left to the care of an inferior species of deities . Still the black kings and black nobility are to go to the upper gods after death , where ...
THE Ashantees believe that a higher sort of God takes care of the whites , and that they are left to the care of an inferior species of deities . Still the black kings and black nobility are to go to the upper gods after death , where ...
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THE Americans , we believe , are the first persons who have discarded the tailor in the administration of justice , and his auxiliary the barber two persons of endless importance in the codes and pandects of Europe .
THE Americans , we believe , are the first persons who have discarded the tailor in the administration of justice , and his auxiliary the barber two persons of endless importance in the codes and pandects of Europe .
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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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