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 pages |
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... understanding . Their only idea of wit , or rather that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North , and which , under the name of WUT , is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste , is ...
... understanding . Their only idea of wit , or rather that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North , and which , under the name of WUT , is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste , is ...
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... understanding is alive only to the useful and the profitable : he never lives for what is merely gracious , courteous , and ornamental . His faculties seem to be drenched and slackened by the eternal fogs in which he resides ; he is ...
... understanding is alive only to the useful and the profitable : he never lives for what is merely gracious , courteous , and ornamental . His faculties seem to be drenched and slackened by the eternal fogs in which he resides ; he is ...
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... understandings , till the season for improvement is utterly past away , and all chance of forming more important habits completely lost .- [ E . R. 1810. ] EDUCATION OF COUNTRY GENTLEMEN . A CENTURY ago , who would have believed that ...
... understandings , till the season for improvement is utterly past away , and all chance of forming more important habits completely lost .- [ E . R. 1810. ] EDUCATION OF COUNTRY GENTLEMEN . A CENTURY ago , who would have believed that ...
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... understanding . [ E. R. 1810. ] THE RESOURCES OF LIFE . THE object is , to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures - habits that time will ame- liorate , not destroy , - occupations that will render sick ...
... understanding . [ E. R. 1810. ] THE RESOURCES OF LIFE . THE object is , to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures - habits that time will ame- liorate , not destroy , - occupations that will render sick ...
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... understanding was the exercise of vigorous reasoning , in pursuit of important and difficult truth . He had no wit ; nor did he condescend to that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North , and ...
... understanding was the exercise of vigorous reasoning , in pursuit of important and difficult truth . He had no wit ; nor did he condescend to that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North , and ...
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