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 |
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... were for the most part devoted to critical and polemical objects that have already lost much of their interest , by the very success of the warfare he waged against vi ADVERTISEMENT . them . Posterity will find it hard.
... were for the most part devoted to critical and polemical objects that have already lost much of their interest , by the very success of the warfare he waged against vi ADVERTISEMENT . them . Posterity will find it hard.
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... object for which it con- tends . [ E. R. 1803. ] AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS IN 1803 . AMERICA presents such an immediate , and such a seducing species of provision to all its inhabitants , that it has no idle discontented populace ; its ...
... object for which it con- tends . [ E. R. 1803. ] AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS IN 1803 . AMERICA presents such an immediate , and such a seducing species of provision to all its inhabitants , that it has no idle discontented populace ; its ...
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... object to human ambition : of course , that peril is increased by every augmentation of a people , who are hastening on , with rapid and irresistible pace , to the highest eminences of human grandeur . Some contest for power there must ...
... object to human ambition : of course , that peril is increased by every augmentation of a people , who are hastening on , with rapid and irresistible pace , to the highest eminences of human grandeur . Some contest for power there must ...
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... object than the gratification of taste , or the display of skill.- [ E. R. 1823. ] COLONIAL BREWERIES . WHAT two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia ? -what event more awfully important to an English colony , than the ...
... object than the gratification of taste , or the display of skill.- [ E. R. 1823. ] COLONIAL BREWERIES . WHAT two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia ? -what event more awfully important to an English colony , than the ...
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... objects for centuries to come . Then , when they have got to the Pacific Ocean - epic poems , plays , pleasures of memory , and all the elegant gratifications of an ancient people who have tamed the wild earth , and set down to amuse ...
... objects for centuries to come . Then , when they have got to the Pacific Ocean - epic poems , plays , pleasures of memory , and all the elegant gratifications of an ancient people who have tamed the wild earth , and set down to amuse ...
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