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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57. oldal
... eye , or to be pulled by the nose . The Iliad would never have come down to these times if Agamemnon had given Achilles a box on the ear . We should have trembled for the Æneid , if any Tyrian nobleman had kicked the pious Æneas in the ...
... eye , or to be pulled by the nose . The Iliad would never have come down to these times if Agamemnon had given Achilles a box on the ear . We should have trembled for the Æneid , if any Tyrian nobleman had kicked the pious Æneas in the ...
79. oldal
... eyes , and to handle a subject as if mankind could lounge over a pamphlet for ten years , as before their submersion , -is to be guilty of the most grievous error into which a writer can pos- sibly fall . The author of this book should ...
... eyes , and to handle a subject as if mankind could lounge over a pamphlet for ten years , as before their submersion , -is to be guilty of the most grievous error into which a writer can pos- sibly fall . The author of this book should ...
101. oldal
... eyes to the price we shall pay for it . There will be every three or four years some dreadful massacre — whole trains will be hurled down a precipice , and 200 or 300 persons will be killed on the spot . There will be every now and then ...
... eyes to the price we shall pay for it . There will be every three or four years some dreadful massacre — whole trains will be hurled down a precipice , and 200 or 300 persons will be killed on the spot . There will be every now and then ...
110. oldal
... eyes steadily upon the main chance , like the Scotch or the Dutch . England strove very hard , at one period , to compel the Scotch to pay a double Church ; —but Sawney took his pen and ink ; and finding what a sum it amounted to ...
... eyes steadily upon the main chance , like the Scotch or the Dutch . England strove very hard , at one period , to compel the Scotch to pay a double Church ; —but Sawney took his pen and ink ; and finding what a sum it amounted to ...
137. oldal
... eyes to the dilapidations of a cas- sock . The draft is payable at sight in Dublin , or by agents in the next market town dependent upon the Commission in Dublin . The housekeeper of the holy man is importunate for money , and if it be ...
... eyes to the dilapidations of a cas- sock . The draft is payable at sight in Dublin , or by agents in the next market town dependent upon the Commission in Dublin . The housekeeper of the holy man is importunate for money , and if it be ...
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