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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68. oldal
... hear that a man has walked a thousand miles with peas in his shoes , unless we know why and wherefore , and to what good purpose he has done it.- [ E. R. 1809. ] MISSIONARY PRETENSIONS . THE missionaries complain of intolerance . A ...
... hear that a man has walked a thousand miles with peas in his shoes , unless we know why and wherefore , and to what good purpose he has done it.- [ E. R. 1809. ] MISSIONARY PRETENSIONS . THE missionaries complain of intolerance . A ...
77. oldal
... excellent passions of the human heart called forth by a great actor , animated by a great poet ? To hear Siddons repeat what Shakspeare wrote ! To behold the child 78 POLITICAL OPPOSITION . - JEALOUSY OF FREEDOM . ―dd.
... excellent passions of the human heart called forth by a great actor , animated by a great poet ? To hear Siddons repeat what Shakspeare wrote ! To behold the child 78 POLITICAL OPPOSITION . - JEALOUSY OF FREEDOM . ―dd.
84. oldal
... hear , that what he has done for so long a time was not worth doing .- [ E . R. 1809. ] BEAUTY OF CLASSICAL LANGUAGE . THE two ancient languages are as mere inventions -as pieces of mechanism incomparably more beautiful than any of the ...
... hear , that what he has done for so long a time was not worth doing .- [ E . R. 1809. ] BEAUTY OF CLASSICAL LANGUAGE . THE two ancient languages are as mere inventions -as pieces of mechanism incomparably more beautiful than any of the ...
89. oldal
... hear him— the man who is so deeply impressed with the importance of the discovery that he will take no denial , but , at the risk of fortune , and fame , pushes through all opposition , and is determined that what he thinks he has ...
... hear him— the man who is so deeply impressed with the importance of the discovery that he will take no denial , but , at the risk of fortune , and fame , pushes through all opposition , and is determined that what he thinks he has ...
92. oldal
... hear us cannot sympathise , it is a fault of which soldiers , sailors , sportsmen , gamesters , cultivators , and all men engaged in a particular occupa- tion , are quite as guilty as scholars ; but they have the good fortune to have ...
... hear us cannot sympathise , it is a fault of which soldiers , sailors , sportsmen , gamesters , cultivators , and all men engaged in a particular occupa- tion , are quite as guilty as scholars ; but they have the good fortune to have ...
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