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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... human life he has been introduced ; and I would bring before his notice the fol- lowing eighteen changes which have taken place in England since I first began to breathe in it the breath of life - a period amounting now to nearly ...
... human life he has been introduced ; and I would bring before his notice the fol- lowing eighteen changes which have taken place in England since I first began to breathe in it the breath of life - a period amounting now to nearly ...
7. oldal
... human happiness is so far from being presented to them at present , that it is extremely problematical whether or not they are to be bandied from one vulgar usurper to another , and remain for a century subjugated to the rigour of a ...
... human happiness is so far from being presented to them at present , that it is extremely problematical whether or not they are to be bandied from one vulgar usurper to another , and remain for a century subjugated to the rigour of a ...
12. oldal
... human ambition : of course , that peril is increased by every augmentation of a people , who are hastening on , with rapid and irresistible pace , to the highest eminences of human grandeur . Some contest for power there must be in ...
... human ambition : of course , that peril is increased by every augmentation of a people , who are hastening on , with rapid and irresistible pace , to the highest eminences of human grandeur . Some contest for power there must be in ...
21. oldal
... human villains , a poacher , driven from Europe , wife and child , by thirty lords of manors , at the Quarter Sessions , for killing a partridge . Now , all these are crimes no doubt -particularly the last ; but they are surely crimes ...
... human villains , a poacher , driven from Europe , wife and child , by thirty lords of manors , at the Quarter Sessions , for killing a partridge . Now , all these are crimes no doubt -particularly the last ; but they are surely crimes ...
23. oldal
... human being to adorn public buildings at the Bay , or to aim at any other architectural purpose but the exclusion of wind and rain , we are utterly at a loss to conceive . Such an expense is not only lamentable for the waste of property ...
... human being to adorn public buildings at the Bay , or to aim at any other architectural purpose but the exclusion of wind and rain , we are utterly at a loss to conceive . Such an expense is not only lamentable for the waste of property ...
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