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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THE history of emancipated convicts , who have made a great deal of money by their industry and their speculations , necessarily reaches this country , and prevents men who are goaded by want , and hovering between vice and virtue ...
THE history of emancipated convicts , who have made a great deal of money by their industry and their speculations , necessarily reaches this country , and prevents men who are goaded by want , and hovering between vice and virtue ...
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... prostitutes , drunkards , and blasphemers who had ruined no tailors , corrupted no wives , and had entitled themselves by a long course of solemnity and decorum , to indulge in all the insolence of purity and virtue .
... prostitutes , drunkards , and blasphemers who had ruined no tailors , corrupted no wives , and had entitled themselves by a long course of solemnity and decorum , to indulge in all the insolence of purity and virtue .
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If nations rank according to their wisdom and their virtue , what right has the American , a scourger and murderer of slaves , to compare himself with the least and lowest of the European nations ? — much more with this great and humane ...
If nations rank according to their wisdom and their virtue , what right has the American , a scourger and murderer of slaves , to compare himself with the least and lowest of the European nations ? — much more with this great and humane ...
40. oldal
Besides the probate , large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathersto be taxed no more .- [ E . R. 1820. ] ...
Besides the probate , large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathersto be taxed no more .- [ E . R. 1820. ] ...
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This is not teaching virtue , but gilding the gallows , and raising up splendid associations in favour of being hanged .- [ E . R. 1803. ] PUBLIC OPINION AND DESPOTIC POWER . MANY governments are despotic in law , which are not despotic ...
This is not teaching virtue , but gilding the gallows , and raising up splendid associations in favour of being hanged .- [ E . R. 1803. ] PUBLIC OPINION AND DESPOTIC POWER . MANY governments are despotic in law , which are not despotic ...
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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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