 ... feet two inches high, beautifully proportioned, with a magnificent countenance, expressive of all the cardinal virtues and the Ten Commandments, — and it is asked with an air of triumph if such a man as this will fall into contempt on account of...  The Dublin University Magazine - Page 71839Full view - About this book
 | 1839 - 842 pages
...cardinal virtues and the Ten Commandments — and it is asked, with an air of triumph, if such a man as this will fall into contempt on account of his poverty?...him an average, ordinary, uninteresting minister; obese,dumpy, neither ill-natured nor good-natured ; neither learned nor ignorant, striding over the... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pages
...cardinal virtues and the Ten Commandments, — and it is asked, with an air of triumph, if such a man as this will fall into contempt on account of his poverty...average, ordinary, uninteresting minister ; obese, dumpy, neithei ill-natured nor good-natured ; neither learned nor ignorant, striding over the stiles to church,... | |
 | 1847 - 640 pages
...minister ; obose, dumpy ; neither illnatured nor good-natured, neither learned nor ignorant ; slrii/ing over the stiles to church with a second-rate wife,...and four parochial children, full of catechism and bread-andbutter ; or let him be seen in one of those ShemHam-and Japhct buggies, made on Mount Ararat... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 388 pages
...cardinal virtues and the Ten Commandments, — and it is asked, with an air of triumph, if such a man as this will fall into contempt on account of his poverty ? But substitute for him an average, ordinary, nninteresting minister; obese, dumpy, neither ill-natured nor good-natured; neither learned, nor ignorant,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pages
...Commandments, — and it is asked, witli an air of triumph, if such a man as this will fall into cnmempt on account of his poverty ? But substitute for him...average, ordinary, uninteresting minister ; obese, dumpy, neithei ill-natured nor goou-ualured : neither learn ed nor ignorant, striding over the stiles to church... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1845 - 496 pages
...cardinal virtues and the Ten Commandments,—and it is asked with an air of triumph if such a man as this will fall into contempt on account of his poverty...ordinary, uninteresting Minister; obese, dumpy, neither ill-uatured nor good-natured; neither learned, nor ignorant, striding over the stiles to Church, with... | |
 | 1845 - 854 pages
...cardinal virtues and the ten commandments; and it is asked with in air of triumph if such a man as this will fall into contempt on account of his poverty ? But substitute fur him an average, ordinary, uninteresting minister —obese, dumpy — neither ill-natured nor good-natured... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 pages
...cardinal vtrtues and the ten commandments ; — and it is asked with an air of triumph, if such a man as this will fall into contempt on account of his poverty...and four parochial children, full of catechism and oread and butter ; or let him be seen in one of those Shem-Ham-and-Japhet buggies made on Mount Ararat... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pages
...cardinal virtues and the ten commandments ; — and it is asked with an air of triumph, if such a man as this will fall into contempt on account of his poverty...learned nor ignorant ; striding over the stiles to c1turch with a second-rate wife, dusty and deliquescent, and four parochial children, full of catechism... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 pages
...cardinal virtues and the ten commandments; — and it is asked with an air of triumph, if such a man as this will fall into contempt on account of his poverty...good-natured, neither learned nor ignorant ; striding orer the stiles to church with a second-rate wife, dusty and deliquescent, and four parochial children,... | |
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