Sydney SmithLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858 |
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... success , such as acuteness , readiness , boldness , an intuitive knowledge of the springs of action , dialectic skill , and command of language , he was preeminently endowed with the no less indispensable requisites of patience and ...
... success , such as acuteness , readiness , boldness , an intuitive knowledge of the springs of action , dialectic skill , and command of language , he was preeminently endowed with the no less indispensable requisites of patience and ...
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... success in this respect , that people find it difficult to imagine a period when it was a moot point in the minor morals , whether a gentleman could receive pecuniary remuneration for an article . Swift quarrelled with Harley for ...
... success in this respect , that people find it difficult to imagine a period when it was a moot point in the minor morals , whether a gentleman could receive pecuniary remuneration for an article . Swift quarrelled with Harley for ...
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... success of the work is not less so . · All the men here will take their guineas , I find , and , under the sanction of that example , I think I may take my Editor's salary also without being sup- posed to have suffered any degradation ...
... success of the work is not less so . · All the men here will take their guineas , I find , and , under the sanction of that example , I think I may take my Editor's salary also without being sup- posed to have suffered any degradation ...
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... success than the essay of the Edgeworths on Irish Bulls , written to prove that the Irish make no more bulls than other nations , and proving incontestably that they make more than all the other nations of Europe put together . Yet the ...
... success than the essay of the Edgeworths on Irish Bulls , written to prove that the Irish make no more bulls than other nations , and proving incontestably that they make more than all the other nations of Europe put together . Yet the ...
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... success of the enterprise , it would have been a notification to the public that a set of briefless barristers , unemployed doctors , embryo statesmen , and mute inglorious orators , with the aid of an ex- curate , were about to ...
... success of the enterprise , it would have been a notification to the public that a set of briefless barristers , unemployed doctors , embryo statesmen , and mute inglorious orators , with the aid of an ex- curate , were about to ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration afterwards amongst Andlau asked attend beauty Beyle Beyle's called cause character circuit Combe Florey counsel court dinner Duke Edinburgh Review English Erskine exclaimed eyes fame fancy father Faustine favour favourite feeling fortune genius gentleman George George Selwyn give grace habits Hahn-Hahn hand heard heart honour House House of Lords humour judge Lady letter live London Lord Brougham Lord Byron Lord Carlisle Lord Chesterfield Lord Eldon Lord Mansfield Lord Melbourne Lord Thurlow Madame Madame de Staël manner ment mind moral never noble object observed occasion once Paris party passion period pleasure poet political profession remarkable replied Rogers Rogers's Scott Selwyn Sheridan society speak speech story style Sydney Smith talents talk taste tell thing thought Thurlow tion told took Twiss Ulrich verses Walpole whilst wish woman writes young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 417 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying ; Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird...
Seite 85 - The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before...
Seite 188 - Eximia veste et victu convivia, ludi, pocula crebra, unguenta coronae serta parantur, nequiquam, quoniam medio de fonte leporum surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat...
Seite 65 - And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Seite 307 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Seite 417 - And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies ; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Seite 417 - And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast saying. Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Seite 313 - Oh, what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame, I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart : I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
Seite 86 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Seite 92 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.