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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... head ; reverend renegades advanced to the highest dignities of the Church , for helping to rivet the fetters of Catholic and Protestant Dissenters ; and no more chance of a Whig administration than of a thaw in Zembla . These were the ...
... head ; reverend renegades advanced to the highest dignities of the Church , for helping to rivet the fetters of Catholic and Protestant Dissenters ; and no more chance of a Whig administration than of a thaw in Zembla . These were the ...
5. oldal
... head a wee bit to the nor - wast . " If you knock at the door , you hear a shrill female voice from the fifth flat shriek out , " Wha's chapping at the door ? " which is presently opened by a lassie with short petticoats , bare legs ...
... head a wee bit to the nor - wast . " If you knock at the door , you hear a shrill female voice from the fifth flat shriek out , " Wha's chapping at the door ? " which is presently opened by a lassie with short petticoats , bare legs ...
16. oldal
... head of a rabbit , a tail as big as a bed - post , hopping along at the rate of five hops to a mile , with three or four young kangaroos looking out of its false uterus , to see what is passing . Then comes a quadruped as big as a large ...
... head of a rabbit , a tail as big as a bed - post , hopping along at the rate of five hops to a mile , with three or four young kangaroos looking out of its false uterus , to see what is passing . Then comes a quadruped as big as a large ...
18. oldal
... heads at the Bar , hoping to be transported , -- " Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum , Tendebantque manus , ripa ulterioris amore . " Another circumstance , which destroys all idea of pun- ishment in transportation to New South ...
... heads at the Bar , hoping to be transported , -- " Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum , Tendebantque manus , ripa ulterioris amore . " Another circumstance , which destroys all idea of pun- ishment in transportation to New South ...
23. oldal
... head of any human being to adorn public buildings at the Bay , or to aim at any other architectural purpose but the exclusion of wind and rain , we are utterly at a loss to conceive . Such an expense is not only lamentable for the waste ...
... head of any human being to adorn public buildings at the Bay , or to aim at any other architectural purpose but the exclusion of wind and rain , we are utterly at a loss to conceive . Such an expense is not only lamentable for the waste ...
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