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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... ; its population amounts only to six millions , and it is not condensed in such masses as the population of Europe . After all , an experiment of twenty years is never to be cited in 127 SALIC LAW - LIFE PEERAGES . politics ; nothing.
... ; its population amounts only to six millions , and it is not condensed in such masses as the population of Europe . After all , an experiment of twenty years is never to be cited in 127 SALIC LAW - LIFE PEERAGES . politics ; nothing.
12. oldal
... politics ; nothing can be built upon such a slender inference . Even if America were to remain stationary , she might find that she had presented too fascinating and irresistible an object to human ambition : of course , that peril is ...
... politics ; nothing can be built upon such a slender inference . Even if America were to remain stationary , she might find that she had presented too fascinating and irresistible an object to human ambition : of course , that peril is ...
13. oldal
... political freedom to their necessities . These evils are effectually , as it should seem , obviated by the creation of a certain number of peers for life only . The most useless and offensive tumour in the body politic , is the titled ...
... political freedom to their necessities . These evils are effectually , as it should seem , obviated by the creation of a certain number of peers for life only . The most useless and offensive tumour in the body politic , is the titled ...
29. oldal
... politics , small under- standing , and good family ! It is impossible to contradict a gentleman who has been in the forests of Cayenne ; but we are determined , as soon as a campanero is brought to England , to make him toll in a public ...
... politics , small under- standing , and good family ! It is impossible to contradict a gentleman who has been in the forests of Cayenne ; but we are determined , as soon as a campanero is brought to England , to make him toll in a public ...
36. oldal
... a far greater proportion of their statesmen and artists and political writers have been foreigners , than ever occurred before in the history of any civilised and educated people . During the AMERICA . - SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES . 37.
... a far greater proportion of their statesmen and artists and political writers have been foreigners , than ever occurred before in the history of any civilised and educated people . During the AMERICA . - SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES . 37.
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