 | Charles Maurice Davies - 1875 - 462 pages
...supported his body with tasteless food; but God has given us light, and beauty, and colour, to tighten the days of man's pilgrimage, and " to charm his pained steps over the burning marie." I quote from memory, and Christmas Day is no time for consulting one's bookshelves ; but the words... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1876 - 312 pages
...heart and shining countenance. Genuine and innocent wit like this is surely the flavour of the mind! Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support...' charm his pained steps over the burning marie.' — Sydney Smith. 37. FIELD SPORTS AND AGRICULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. The favourite diversions of... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...delightful part of our nature. Genuine and innocent wit like this is surely the flavour of the mind. Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support...pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. Difficulty of Gcruerning a Nation. It would seem that the science of government is an unappropriated... | |
 | Maxims - 1876 - 340 pages
...which folly and wickedness have given occasion, none is equally severe with a bond or a settlement. Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support...man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps o'er the burning marl." — Rev. Sydney Smith. He that denies to give alms for fear of being poor,... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1876 - 346 pages
...heart and shining countenance. Genuine and innocent wit like this is surely the flavour of the mind. Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support...wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfume to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marl."... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 pages
...and a shining countenance. Genuine and innocent v.'it like this is surely the^ctwr of the •mind! Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support...life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavor, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his painful... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pages
...heart and a shining countenance. Genuine and innocent wit like this is surely the flavor of the mind ! Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support...by tasteless food ; but God has given us wit, and flavor, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his painful... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1877 - 392 pages
...ways by plain reason, and support his life by 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, hia pained steps over the burning marie.''' — Sydney Smith. IV. HUMOR. Humor is, in many respects,... | |
 | James L. Crane - 1877 - 562 pages
...laughed can be altogether irreclaimably depraved." — Carlyle. "God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage." — Sidney Smith. " Did you read ' Vindex,' John ? " said Mr. Wesley, referring to a humorous passage... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1878 - 978 pages
...way by plain reason and support his life by tasteless food ; hut God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes to enliven...pilgrimage and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl." " I am persuaded," says Lawrence Sterne, "that every time a man smiles — but much more so... | |
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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 days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning... 
