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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Not unfrequently it will be observed , that his remarks on the tendency of events have been verified in a very remarkable manner , long after he himself had ceased to watch the courses of the world — thus his prognostications of the ...
Not unfrequently it will be observed , that his remarks on the tendency of events have been verified in a very remarkable manner , long after he himself had ceased to watch the courses of the world — thus his prognostications of the ...
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After the manner of his wig , the Doctor has constructed his sermon , giving us a discourse of no common length , and subjoining an immeasurable mass of notes , which appear to concern every learned thing , every learned man ...
After the manner of his wig , the Doctor has constructed his sermon , giving us a discourse of no common length , and subjoining an immeasurable mass of notes , which appear to concern every learned thing , every learned man ...
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... manner , the importance of the charity for which it was preached in restoring to life persons in whom the vital power is suspended . He was discovered with Dr. Langford's discourse lying open before him , in a state of the most ...
... manner , the importance of the charity for which it was preached in restoring to life persons in whom the vital power is suspended . He was discovered with Dr. Langford's discourse lying open before him , in a state of the most ...
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He is not often a bad member of society in the great points of morals , and seldom a good one in the lighter requisites of manners . His understanding is alive only to the useful and the profitable : he never lives for what is merely ...
He is not often a bad member of society in the great points of morals , and seldom a good one in the lighter requisites of manners . His understanding is alive only to the useful and the profitable : he never lives for what is merely ...
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58 DELPHINE . sion ; a large man with a large head , and very landed manner ; knowing enough to torment his fellow creatures , not to instruct them — the ridicule of young ladies , and the natural butt and target of wit .
58 DELPHINE . sion ; a large man with a large head , and very landed manner ; knowing enough to torment his fellow creatures , not to instruct them — the ridicule of young ladies , and the natural butt and target 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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