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 páginas |
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... , to the death of Lord Liverpool , was an awful period for those who ventured to maintain liberal opinions ; and who were too honest to sell them B 2 ENGLAND IN 1802 . for the ermine of the WIT AND WISDOM OF SYDNEY SMITH. ...
... , to the death of Lord Liverpool , was an awful period for those who ventured to maintain liberal opinions ; and who were too honest to sell them B 2 ENGLAND IN 1802 . for the ermine of the WIT AND WISDOM OF SYDNEY SMITH. ...
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... Lord Grey had not then taken off the bear- ing - rein from the English people , as Sir Francis Head has now done from horses . LABOURS OF THE LIBERAL PARTY . To appreciate the value of the Edinburgh Review , the state of England at the ...
... Lord Grey had not then taken off the bear- ing - rein from the English people , as Sir Francis Head has now done from horses . LABOURS OF THE LIBERAL PARTY . To appreciate the value of the Edinburgh Review , the state of England at the ...
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... Lord Eldon and the Court of Chancery pressed heavily upon mankind— Libel was punished by the most cruel and vindictive imprisonments - the principles of Political Economy were little understood - the Law of Debt and of Conspiracy were ...
... Lord Eldon and the Court of Chancery pressed heavily upon mankind— Libel was punished by the most cruel and vindictive imprisonments - the principles of Political Economy were little understood - the Law of Debt and of Conspiracy were ...
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... Lord , is very true of love in the aibstract , but- " here the fiddlers began fiddling furiously , and the rest was lost . No nation has so large a stock of benevolence of heart if you meet with an accident , half Edinburgh immediately ...
... Lord , is very true of love in the aibstract , but- " here the fiddlers began fiddling furiously , and the rest was lost . No nation has so large a stock of benevolence of heart if you meet with an accident , half Edinburgh immediately ...
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... lords of manors , at the Quarter Sessions , for killing a partridge . Now , all these are crimes no doubt -particularly the last ; but they are surely crimes of very different degrees of intensity , to which different degrees of ...
... lords of manors , at the Quarter Sessions , for killing a partridge . Now , all these are crimes no doubt -particularly the last ; but they are surely crimes of very different degrees of intensity , to which different degrees of ...
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