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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... half Edinburgh immediately flocks to your door to inquire after your pure hand or your pure foot , and with a degree of interest that convinces you their whole hearts are in the inquiry . You find they usually arrange their dishes at ...
... half Edinburgh immediately flocks to your door to inquire after your pure hand or your pure foot , and with a degree of interest that convinces you their whole hearts are in the inquiry . You find they usually arrange their dishes at ...
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... half - pay captain , etc. etc. , who have persecuted each other from the beginning of time , and will peck , swear , fly , preach at , and lie in wait for each other till the end of time.- [ Memoir . ] REVOLUTIONARY STATE OF FRANCE . Ir ...
... half - pay captain , etc. etc. , who have persecuted each other from the beginning of time , and will peck , swear , fly , preach at , and lie in wait for each other till the end of time.- [ Memoir . ] REVOLUTIONARY STATE OF FRANCE . Ir ...
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... half of his life miserable , from his utter inability to determine whether it was a bird or a beast . Add to this a parrot , with the legs of a sea - gull ; a skate with the head of a shark ; and a bird of such monstrous dimensions ...
... half of his life miserable , from his utter inability to determine whether it was a bird or a beast . Add to this a parrot , with the legs of a sea - gull ; a skate with the head of a shark ; and a bird of such monstrous dimensions ...
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... half the colony are wet through for want of any covering at all , cannot be a wise or prudent person . He seems to be ignorant , that the prevention of rheumatism . in all young colonies is a much more important object than the ...
... half the colony are wet through for want of any covering at all , cannot be a wise or prudent person . He seems to be ignorant , that the prevention of rheumatism . in all young colonies is a much more important object than the ...
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... half century of their existence , 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 dis- tant colonies ...
... half century of their existence , 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 dis- tant colonies ...
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