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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74. oldal
... reason whatever known to the public . They are almost always devoid of striking and indecorous vices ; but a man may be very shallow , very arrogant , and very vindictive , though a bishop ; and pursue with unrelenting hatred a ...
... reason whatever known to the public . They are almost always devoid of striking and indecorous vices ; but a man may be very shallow , very arrogant , and very vindictive , though a bishop ; and pursue with unrelenting hatred a ...
84. oldal
... reasons why the classics should be studied for the beauties of language . Compared to them , merely as vehicles of thought and passion , all modern languages are dull , ill contrived , and barbarous .- [ E . R. 1809. ] THE CLASSICAL ...
... reasons why the classics should be studied for the beauties of language . Compared to them , merely as vehicles of thought and passion , all modern languages are dull , ill contrived , and barbarous .- [ E . R. 1809. ] THE CLASSICAL ...
86. oldal
... reason , to imagine , or to invent ; but to conjugate , decline , and derive . The situations of ima- ginary glory which he draws for himself , are the detection of an anapæst in the wrong place , or the restoration of a dative case ...
... reason , to imagine , or to invent ; but to conjugate , decline , and derive . The situations of ima- ginary glory which he draws for himself , are the detection of an anapæst in the wrong place , or the restoration of a dative case ...
92. oldal
... reason why she should be diluted and enfeebled down to a mere culler of simples , and fancier of birds ? - why books of history and reasoning are to be torn out of her hand , and why she is to be sent , like a butterfly , to hover over ...
... reason why she should be diluted and enfeebled down to a mere culler of simples , and fancier of birds ? - why books of history and reasoning are to be torn out of her hand , and why she is to be sent , like a butterfly , to hover over ...
124. oldal
... reason that I can find , but because it seems so very odd it should be ruined and conquered . Alas ! so reasoned , in their time , the Austrian , Russian , and Prussian Plymleys . But the English are brave : so were all these nations ...
... reason that I can find , but because it seems so very odd it should be ruined and conquered . Alas ! so reasoned , in their time , the Austrian , Russian , and Prussian Plymleys . But the English are brave : so were all these nations ...
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