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 |
Részletek a könyvből
1 - 5 találat összesen 36 találatból.
v. oldal
... knowledge strike more forcibly upon the mind , and cling more faithfully to the memory , when they are reduced to the form of maxims or aphorisms ; and if this be true in general it is true more especially of writings like those of ...
... knowledge strike more forcibly upon the mind , and cling more faithfully to the memory , when they are reduced to the form of maxims or aphorisms ; and if this be true in general it is true more especially of writings like those of ...
8. oldal
... peril . [ E . R. 1803. ] POLITICAL EXPERIENCE . To call upon a nation , on a sudden , totally destitute of such knowledge and experience , to perform all the OBSTACLES TO FREEDOM . manifold functions of a free constitution.
... peril . [ E . R. 1803. ] POLITICAL EXPERIENCE . To call upon a nation , on a sudden , totally destitute of such knowledge and experience , to perform all the OBSTACLES TO FREEDOM . manifold functions of a free constitution.
17. oldal
... knowledge that it may eventually lead to the possession of a farm of a thousand acres on the river Hawkesbury .- [ E . R. 1803. ] FUTURE INDEPENDENCE OF AUSTRALIA . Ir may be a curious consideration , to reflect what we are to do with ...
... knowledge that it may eventually lead to the possession of a farm of a thousand acres on the river Hawkesbury .- [ E . R. 1803. ] FUTURE INDEPENDENCE OF AUSTRALIA . Ir may be a curious consideration , to reflect what we are to do with ...
51. oldal
... knowledge of our criminal law , is said to have declared himself thoroughly informed upon the subject , after remaining precisely two and thirty minutes in the Old Bailey . [ E. R. 1803. ] BENEFITS OF AVARICE . THE avaricious love of ...
... knowledge of our criminal law , is said to have declared himself thoroughly informed upon the subject , after remaining precisely two and thirty minutes in the Old Bailey . [ E. R. 1803. ] BENEFITS OF AVARICE . THE avaricious love of ...
82. oldal
... KNOWLEDGE OF LAWS . THE people , it is true , are ignorant of the laws ; but they are ignorant only of the laws which do not concern them . A poacher knows nothing of the penalties to which he exposes himself by stealing ten thousand ...
... KNOWLEDGE OF LAWS . THE people , it is true , are ignorant of the laws ; but they are ignorant only of the laws which do not concern them . A poacher knows nothing of the penalties to which he exposes himself by stealing ten thousand ...
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
absurd American animal Archdeacon Singleton Aristotle Ballot beautiful believe Bishop BISHOP MONK Bishop of London BOTANY BAY Catholic character Church civilised clergy clergyman colours death dinner Dugald Stewart earth Edinburgh Review effect England English evil favour fear feeling Finchley Common folly gentlemen give habit happiness hear heart Hindoos honest honour House human ignorant Irish justice knowledge labour laws Letter to Archdeacon live London look Lord Lord John Russell LORD MELBOURNE LORD SIDMOUTH mankind manner means Memoir ment mind moral nation nature never object opinion pain parish passions person philosophy pleasure political poor principles PUNISHMENT reason Reform religion remember respect ridicule ROTTEN BOROUGHS ruin SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH spirit Sydney Smith talents taste Taunton thing thought thousand tion truth turn tyranny virtue Whig whole wisdom young