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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IT requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding . 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 ...
IT requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding . 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 ...
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-this single little bird being more powerful than the belfry of a cathedral , ringing for a new dean - just appointed on account of shabby politics , small understanding , and good family ! It is impossible to contradict a gentleman who ...
-this single little bird being more powerful than the belfry of a cathedral , ringing for a new dean - just appointed on account of shabby politics , small understanding , and good family ! It is impossible to contradict a gentleman who ...
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His understanding is alive only to the useful and the profitable : he never lives for what is merely gracious , courteous , and ornamental . His faculties seem to be drenched and slackened by the eternal fogs in which he resides ; he is ...
His understanding is alive only to the useful and the profitable : he never lives for what is merely gracious , courteous , and ornamental . His faculties seem to be drenched and slackened by the eternal fogs in which he resides ; he is ...
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91 you catch up one half of these creatures , and train them to a particular set of actions and opinions , and the other half to a perfectly opposite set , of course their understandings will differ , as one or the other sort of ...
91 you catch up one half of these creatures , and train them to a particular set of actions and opinions , and the other half to a perfectly opposite set , of course their understandings will differ , as one or the other sort of ...
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... and if she cannot succeed in oil or water colours , to prefer gilding , varnishing , burnishing , box - making , to real and solid improvement in taste , knowledge , and understanding . — [ E. R. 1810. ] - THE RESOURCES OF LIFE .
... and if she cannot succeed in oil or water colours , to prefer gilding , varnishing , burnishing , box - making , to real and solid improvement in taste , knowledge , and understanding . — [ E. R. 1810. ] - THE RESOURCES OF LIFE .
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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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