Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithWiddleton, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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120. oldal
... learning is quite unrivalled - his reading various and good ; and we may observe , at intervals , a talent for wit , of which he might have availed himself to excellent purpose , had it been compatible with the dignified style in which ...
... learning is quite unrivalled - his reading various and good ; and we may observe , at intervals , a talent for wit , of which he might have availed himself to excellent purpose , had it been compatible with the dignified style in which ...
122. oldal
... learning by the English manner of teaching , involve another and a very different question ; and we will venture to say , that there never was a more complete instance in any country of such extravagant and overacted attachment to any ...
... learning by the English manner of teaching , involve another and a very different question ; and we will venture to say , that there never was a more complete instance in any country of such extravagant and overacted attachment to any ...
123. oldal
... learning , we may , if we please , denominate a foundation ; but it is a foundation so far above ground , that there is absolutely no room to put anything upon it . If you occupy a man with one thing till he is twenty - four years of ...
... learning , we may , if we please , denominate a foundation ; but it is a foundation so far above ground , that there is absolutely no room to put anything upon it . If you occupy a man with one thing till he is twenty - four years of ...
124. oldal
... learning , as taught in England , is , that scholars have come , in process of time , and from the effects of association , to love the instrument better than the end ; -not the luxury which the difficulty encloses , but the difficulty ...
... learning , as taught in England , is , that scholars have come , in process of time , and from the effects of association , to love the instrument better than the end ; -not the luxury which the difficulty encloses , but the difficulty ...
125. oldal
... learning , it seems to be sufficient if the least possible good is gained by the greatest possible exertion ; if the end is anything , and the means everything . It is of some importance to speak and write French ; and innumerable ...
... learning , it seems to be sufficient if the least possible good is gained by the greatest possible exertion ; if the end is anything , and the means everything . It is of some importance to speak and write French ; and innumerable ...
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414. oldal - O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
187. oldal - The schoolboy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road — and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
189. oldal - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?
397. oldal - Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound; If chance with nymph-like step fair virgin pass, What pleasing seemed, for her now pleases more, She most, and in her look sums all delight.
65. oldal - Russell; but his worst failure is that he is utterly ignorant of all moral fear; there is nothing he would not undertake. I believe he would perform the operation for the stone - build St. Peter's - or assume (with or without ten minutes...
187. oldal - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man — taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal — on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice— on the brass nails of the coffin, and ihe ribands of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
101. oldal - That he was not scrupulously pious in some part of his life, is known by many idle and indecent applications of sentences taken from the Scriptures ; a mode of merriment which a good man dreads for its profaneness, and a witty man disdains for its easiness and vulgarity.
396. oldal - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms...
430. oldal - His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
224. oldal - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...