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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... -TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth , or covers the back , or is placed under the foot - taxes upon every thing which it is pleasant to see , hear , feel , smell , or tastetaxes upon warmth , light , and locomotion ...
... -TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth , or covers the back , or is placed under the foot - taxes upon every thing which it is pleasant to see , hear , feel , smell , or tastetaxes upon warmth , light , and locomotion ...
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... because none will be kept ; unstable in the very foundations of social life , deficient in the elements of good faith , men who prefer any load of infamy however great , to any pressure of taxation however light .
... because none will be kept ; unstable in the very foundations of social life , deficient in the elements of good faith , men who prefer any load of infamy however great , to any pressure of taxation however light .
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I see now in my mind's eye a whole army on the plains of Pennsylvania in battle array , immense corps of insolvent light infantry , regiments of heavy horse debtors , battalions of repudiators , brigades of bankrupts , with Vivre sans ...
I see now in my mind's eye a whole army on the plains of Pennsylvania in battle array , immense corps of insolvent light infantry , regiments of heavy horse debtors , battalions of repudiators , brigades of bankrupts , with Vivre sans ...
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IN routing out a nest of consecrated cobblers , and in bringing to light such a perilous heap of trash as we were obliged to work through , speaking of the Methodists and Missionaries , we are generally conceived to have rendered an ...
IN routing out a nest of consecrated cobblers , and in bringing to light such a perilous heap of trash as we were obliged to work through , speaking of the Methodists and Missionaries , we are generally conceived to have rendered an ...
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We may still borrow descriptive power from Tacitus ; dignified perspicuity from Livy ; simplicity from Cæsar ; and from Homer some portion of that light and heat which , dispersed into ten thousand channels , has filled the world with ...
We may still borrow descriptive power from Tacitus ; dignified perspicuity from Livy ; simplicity from Cæsar ; and from Homer some portion of that light and heat which , dispersed into ten thousand channels , has filled the world with ...
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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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