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Wit and wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith

Evert A. Duyckinck · 1856 · Scanned text

183,141 words · about 12 h 50 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1856, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/29002293); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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About this book

Author
Evert A. Duyckinck
Language
English
Published
1856
Length
183,141 words · about 12 h 50 min
Sections
6 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain

 

Contents (6)

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Front matter

WIT AND WISDOM OF SYDNEY SMITH.

WHEN WIT IS COMBINED WITH SENSE AND INFORMATION J WHEN IT IS SOFTENED BY BENEVOLENCE AND RESTRAINED BY STRONG PRINCI- PLE ; WHEN IT IS IN THE HAKDS OF A MAN WHO CAN USE IT AND DESPISE IT, WHO CAN BE WITTY AND SOMETHING MUCH BETTER THAN WITTY, WHO LOVES HONOUR, JUSTICE, DECENCY, GOOD-NATURE, MORALITY AND

RELIGION, TEN THOUSAND TIMES BETTER THAN WIT J WIT IS THEN A

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