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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Their only idea of wit , or rather that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North , and which , under the name of WUT , is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste , is laughing ...
Their only idea of wit , or rather that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North , and which , under the name of WUT , is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste , is laughing ...
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Another circumstance , which destroys all idea of punishment in transportation to New South Wales , is the enormous expense which that settlement would occasion if it really were made a place of punishment .
Another circumstance , which destroys all idea of punishment in transportation to New South Wales , is the enormous expense which that settlement would occasion if it really were made a place of punishment .
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WHAT two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia ? -what event more awfully important to an English colony , than the erection of its first brewhouse ? — [ E. R. 1823. ] 24 CEYLON IN 1803 . SELF - GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA.
WHAT two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia ? -what event more awfully important to an English colony , than the erection of its first brewhouse ? — [ E. R. 1823. ] 24 CEYLON IN 1803 . SELF - GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA.
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c . , are circumstances which the old bard seems to relate as the ordinary events of his times , without ever dreaming that there could be much harm in them ; and if it be urged that Homer took his ideas of right and wrong from a ...
c . , are circumstances which the old bard seems to relate as the ordinary events of his times , without ever dreaming that there could be much harm in them ; and if it be urged that Homer took his ideas of right and wrong from a ...
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... bearing they may have on the happiness of the clergy at large never for one moment comes into the serious consideration of Parliament.— [ E. R. 1802. ] UTILITY AND WIT . THE idea of utility is always inimical to the idea of wit .
... bearing they may have on the happiness of the clergy at large never for one moment comes into the serious consideration of Parliament.— [ E. R. 1802. ] UTILITY AND WIT . THE idea of utility is always inimical to the idea of wit .
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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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