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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... which 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.
... which 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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... expedient ( gross and absurd as it seems to be ) the best calculated , perhaps , to obviate the effects of ambition upon the stability of governments , by narrowing the field on which it acts , and the object for which it contends .
... expedient ( gross and absurd as it seems to be ) the best calculated , perhaps , to obviate the effects of ambition upon the stability of governments , by narrowing the field on which it acts , and the object for which it contends .
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Even if America were to remain stationary , she might find that she had presented too fascinating and irresistible an object to human ambition : of course , that peril is increased by every augmentation of a people , who are hastening ...
Even if America were to remain stationary , she might find that she had presented too fascinating and irresistible an object to human ambition : of course , that peril is increased by every augmentation of a people , who are hastening ...
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... that the prevention of rheumatism in all young colonies is a much more important object than the gratification of taste , or the display of skill.— [ E. R. 1823. ] COLONIAL BREWERIES . WHAT two ideas are more inseparable than Beer ...
... that the prevention of rheumatism in all young colonies is a much more important object than the gratification of taste , or the display of skill.— [ E. R. 1823. ] COLONIAL BREWERIES . WHAT two ideas are more inseparable than Beer ...
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Prairies , steam - boats , grist - mills , are their natural 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 ...
Prairies , steam - boats , grist - mills , are their natural 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 ...
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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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