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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... dreamed of by men who seem to measure the happiness and future grandeur of France by degrees of longitude and latitude , and who believe she might acquire liberty with as much facility as she could acquire Switzerland or Naples .
... dreamed of by men who seem to measure the happiness and future grandeur of France by degrees of longitude and latitude , and who believe she might acquire liberty with as much facility as she could acquire Switzerland or Naples .
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Finding that they were not to have the pleasure of his company , the convicts very naturally thought of picking his pockets ; the necessity of which professional measure was prevented by a speedy distribution of their contents .
Finding that they were not to have the pleasure of his company , the convicts very naturally thought of picking his pockets ; the necessity of which professional measure was prevented by a speedy distribution of their contents .
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29 what Nature has done in the forests of Cayenne , and measuring the force of tropical intonation by the sounds of a Scotch duck ! The campanero may be heard three miles ! -this single little bird being more powerful than the belfry of ...
29 what Nature has done in the forests of Cayenne , and measuring the force of tropical intonation by the sounds of a Scotch duck ! The campanero may be heard three miles ! -this single little bird being more powerful than the belfry of ...
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... but the existence of slavery in America is an atrocious crime , with which no measure can be kept - for which her situation affords no sort of apology - which makes liberty itself distrusted , and the boast of it disgusting .
... but the existence of slavery in America is an atrocious crime , with which no measure can be kept - for which her situation affords no sort of apology - which makes liberty itself distrusted , and the boast of it disgusting .
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If a citizen of the United States can make a shoe , he is at liberty to make a shoe any where between Lake Ontario and New Orleans , — he may sole on the Mississippi , - heel on the Missouri ,measure Mr. Birkbeck on the little Wabash ...
If a citizen of the United States can make a shoe , he is at liberty to make a shoe any where between Lake Ontario and New Orleans , — he may sole on the Mississippi , - heel on the Missouri ,measure Mr. Birkbeck on the little Wabash ...
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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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