 If he had been arrogant and grasping ; if he had been faithless and false; if he had been always eager to strangle infant genius in its cradle; always ready to betray and to blacken those with whom he sat at meat; he would have passed many men, who, in...  Notes on the Anti-corn Law Struggle - Сторінка 168автори: Andrew Bisset - 1884 - 305 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 482 стор.
...uppermost. If he had been arrogant and grasping; if he had been faithless and false ; if he had always been eager to strangle infant genius in its cradle ; always...who, in the course of his long life, have passed him ; but, without selling his soul for pottage, if he only had had a little more prudence for the promotion... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 стор.
...which warms more than dinner or wine.* This is the good and evil of your father which comes uppermost. If he had been arrogant and grasping ; if he had been faithless and false ; if he had always been eager to strangle infant genius in its cradle ; always ready to betray and to blacken those... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1865 - 478 стор.
...warms more than dinner or wine.* : This is the good and evil of your father which comes uppermost. If he had been arrogant and grasping; if he had been faithless and false; if he had always been eager to strangle infant genius in its cradle; always ready to betray and to blacken those... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1867 - 594 стор.
...battle, but I was overlooked in the division of the spoil.' Here, again, let Sydney Smith speak : ' If he had been arrogant and grasping ; if he had been...infant genius in its cradle, always ready to betray and blacken those with whom he sat at meat, he would have passed many men, who, in the course of his long... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1870 - 842 стор.
...which warms more than dinner or wine. This is the good and evil of your father which comes uppermost. If he had been arrogant and grasping; if he had been faithless and false; if he had always been eager to strangle infant genius in its cradle ; always ready to betray and to blacken those... | |
 | Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury - 1906 - 436 стор.
...Brougham was the person aimed at by Sydney Smith as a contrast to Mackintosh, in the passage beginning "if he had been arrogant and grasping, if he had been faithless and false." (See "Life of Mackintosh," Vol. II. p. 503.) We had talk about Junius's letters. Mr. Franks said he... | |
 | 1835 - 626 стор.
...was therefore pushed into such situations as fall to the lot of the feeble and delicate in a crowd. ' If he had been arrogant and grasping ; if he had been...genius in its cradle ; always ready to betray and ta blacken those with whom he sat at meat ; he would have passed many men, who, in the course qf hia... | |
 | 1835 - 1190 стор.
...was therefore pushed into such situations as fall to the lot of the feeble and delicate in a crowd. ' If he had been arrogant and grasping ; if he had been...strangle infant genius in its cradle; always ready to be.iray and to blacken those with w/tom he sat at meat; he would have passed many men, who, in the... | |
 | 1869 - 614 стор.
...the same friend that he pointed to Brougham in the passage of his letter on Mackintosh, beginning, ' If he had been arrogant and grasping — if he had been faithless and base — if he had been always eager to strangle infant genius in its cradle — always ready to betray... | |
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