 | 1848 - 704 trang
...tasteless food ; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marl." — Sidney Smith. A FAIR EXAMPLE. CAROLINE FANNY GREGORY was born at Frame, in Somersetshire.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 trang
...tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie." LECTURE XII. ON TASTE. ALL language which concerns the mind, is borrowed from language which respects... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 trang
...tasteless food ; but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie." LECTURE XIL ON TASTE. ALL language which concerns the mind is borrowed from language which respects... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 trang
...tasteless food ; but Grod has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to "charm his pained steps over the burning marie.'7 — Sydney Smith. RAILLERY. Eaillery is the finest part of conversation; but, as it is our... | |
 | 1850 - 818 trang
...tasteless food ; but GOD has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to ' charm his pained steps over the burning inarl.' We hope to see the volume from which these extracts are taken soon republishe^ on this side... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1850 - 612 trang
...tasteless food ; but Gop has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to * charm his pained steps o ver the burning marl/ ЛУе hope to sec the volume from which these extracts arc taken soon republtshe^... | |
 | 1851 - 808 trang
...tastelea food ; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to ' charm his pained steps over the burning marl.' — Sidney Smith. How many will do great things in the way of gifts or service, who will not... | |
 | 1852 - 374 trang
...tasteless food : but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marie." — p. 151. 219 III, A DAY IN A BENGAL CUTCHERRY. BY SYLVANUS SWANQUIU, NOT long ago I had business... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 328 trang
...tasteless food ; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to ' charm his pained steps over the burning marl.'" — pp. 151, 152.] Works by the same Author, in Politics and Political Economy. A DISCUSSION... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 trang
...tasteless food ; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie." — SYDNEY SMITH. THE SOLITARY REAPER. BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland lass... | |
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Genuine and innocent wit like this, is surely the flavour of the mind! Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food ; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the... 
