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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117. oldal
... understanding of the good man . Why then is the Reverend Prelate , who lives on so safely and content- edly with John , so dreadfully alarmed at the Catholics ? 118 BRITISH EXTRAVAGANCE . And why does he so completely.
... understanding of the good man . Why then is the Reverend Prelate , who lives on so safely and content- edly with John , so dreadfully alarmed at the Catholics ? 118 BRITISH EXTRAVAGANCE . And why does he so completely.
193. oldal
... understanding to his fellow - labourers ; and who has made such good use of that superiority , that he has saved what is ( for his station in life ) a very considerable sum of money , and if his existence be extended to the common ...
... understanding to his fellow - labourers ; and who has made such good use of that superiority , that he has saved what is ( for his station in life ) a very considerable sum of money , and if his existence be extended to the common ...
211. oldal
... understanding , a variety of delicate rules which can result only from such sort of meditation ; and it gradually subjects the most impetuous feelings to patient examina- tion and wise control : it inures the youthful mind to ...
... understanding , a variety of delicate rules which can result only from such sort of meditation ; and it gradually subjects the most impetuous feelings to patient examina- tion and wise control : it inures the youthful mind to ...
213. oldal
... understandings to the practical rules of life ; he was the great father and inventor of common sense , as Ceres was of the plough , and Bacchus of intoxication . First he taught his contemporaries that they did not know what they ...
... understandings to the practical rules of life ; he was the great father and inventor of common sense , as Ceres was of the plough , and Bacchus of intoxication . First he taught his contemporaries that they did not know what they ...
214. oldal
... understanding up to a high pitch of enthu- siasm longer than any existing writer ; and , in reading Plato , zeal and animation seem rather to be the regular feelings than the casual effervescence of the mind . He appears almost ...
... understanding up to a high pitch of enthu- siasm longer than any existing writer ; and , in reading Plato , zeal and animation seem rather to be the regular feelings than the casual effervescence of the mind . He appears almost ...
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