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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EDITOR , —It is of some importance at what period a man is born . A young man , alive at this period , hardly knows to what improvements of human life he has been introduced ; and I would bring before his notice the following eighteen ...
EDITOR , —It is of some importance at what period a man is born . A young man , alive at this period , hardly knows to what improvements of human life he has been introduced ; and I would bring before his notice the following eighteen ...
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... and that the opportunity of beginning this immense edifice of human happiness is so far from being presented to them at present , that it is extremely problematical whether or not they are to be bandied from one vulgar usurper to ...
... and that the opportunity of beginning this immense edifice of human happiness is so far from being presented to them at present , that it is extremely problematical whether or not they are to be bandied from one vulgar usurper to ...
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Even if America were to remain stationary , she might find that she had presented too fascinating and irresistible an object to human ambition : of course , that peril is increased by every augmentation of a people , who are hastening ...
Even if America were to remain stationary , she might find that she had presented too fascinating and irresistible an object to human ambition : of course , that peril is increased by every augmentation of a people , who are hastening ...
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Then comes a man who set his house on fire , to cheat the Phoenix Office ; and , lastly , that most glaring of all human villains , a poacher , driven from Europe , wife and child , by thirty lords of manors , at the Quarter Sessions ...
Then comes a man who set his house on fire , to cheat the Phoenix Office ; and , lastly , that most glaring of all human villains , a poacher , driven from Europe , wife and child , by thirty lords of manors , at the Quarter Sessions ...
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How it could enter into the 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 .
How it could enter into the 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 .
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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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