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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Their only idea of wit , or rather that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North , and which , under the name of WUT , is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste , is laughing ...
Their only idea of wit , or rather that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North , and which , under the name of WUT , is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste , is laughing ...
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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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Let the cultivator of modern literature addict himself to the purest models of taste which France , Italy , and England could supply , he might still learn from Virgil to be majestic , and from Tibullus to be tender ; he might not yet ...
Let the cultivator of modern literature addict himself to the purest models of taste which France , Italy , and England could supply , he might still learn from Virgil to be majestic , and from Tibullus to be tender ; he might not yet ...
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We would bring strongly before his mind the characters of those Englishmen who have been the steady friends of the public happiness ; and , by their examples , would breathe into him a pure public taste , which should keep him untainted ...
We would bring strongly before his mind the characters of those Englishmen who have been the steady friends of the public happiness ; and , by their examples , would breathe into him a pure public taste , which should keep him untainted ...
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WHY are we necessarily to doom a girl , whatever be her taste or her capacity , to one unvaried line of petty and frivolous occupation ? If she be full of strong sense and elevated curiosity , can there be any reason why she should be ...
WHY are we necessarily to doom a girl , whatever be her taste or her capacity , to one unvaried line of petty and frivolous occupation ? If she be full of strong sense and elevated curiosity , can there be any reason why she should be ...
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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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