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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... passing . Then comes a quadruped as big as a large cat , with the eyes , colour , and skin of a mole , and the bill and web - feet of a duck -puzzling Dr. Shaw , and rendering the latter half of his life miserable , from his utter ...
... passing . Then comes a quadruped as big as a large cat , with the eyes , colour , and skin of a mole , and the bill and web - feet of a duck -puzzling Dr. Shaw , and rendering the latter half of his life miserable , from his utter ...
52. oldal
... passed their lives in action : and no one has such a pedantic love of good writing , as to prefer mendacious finery to rough and ungrammatical truth .- [ E . R. ] THE INDICATIVE MOOD . THE whole merit of violent deviations from common ...
... passed their lives in action : and no one has such a pedantic love of good writing , as to prefer mendacious finery to rough and ungrammatical truth .- [ E . R. ] THE INDICATIVE MOOD . THE whole merit of violent deviations from common ...
84. oldal
... passed over the bridge , we must let it rot ; -when we have got upon the shoulders of the ancients , we must look over their heads . The man who forgets the friends of his childhood in real life is base ; but he who clings to the props ...
... passed over the bridge , we must let it rot ; -when we have got upon the shoulders of the ancients , we must look over their heads . The man who forgets the friends of his childhood in real life is base ; but he who clings to the props ...
86. oldal
... passed over , and the never - dying Ernesti failed to observe .— [ E . R. 1809. ] LATIN VERSES . THERE are few boys who remain to the age of eighteen or nineteen at a public school , without making above ten thousand Latin verses ; a ...
... passed over , and the never - dying Ernesti failed to observe .— [ E . R. 1809. ] LATIN VERSES . THERE are few boys who remain to the age of eighteen or nineteen at a public school , without making above ten thousand Latin verses ; a ...
119. oldal
... passed through the steward's room , and butler's pantry , into the kitchen . This is the case with ghosts . They no longer loll on couches and sip tea ; but are down on their knees scrubbing with the scullion - or stand sweating , and ...
... passed through the steward's room , and butler's pantry , into the kitchen . This is the case with ghosts . They no longer loll on couches and sip tea ; but are down on their knees scrubbing with the scullion - or stand sweating , and ...
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