 I do say it to create alarm; for we do not appear to me to be half alarmed enough, or to entertain that sense of our danger which leads to the most obvious means of self-defence. As for the spirit of the peasantry, in making a gallant defence behind hedge-rows,...  The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith - Pàgina 325per Sydney Smith - 1844Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 596 pàgines
...seldom passing, the limits of conventional propriety. Take, for instance, such a paragraph as this : — As for the spirit of the peasantry, in making a gallant defence behind hind hedge-rows, and through plate-racks and hen-coops, highly as I think of their bravery, I do not... | |
 | 1915 - 862 pàgines
...their indifference to reform at home in the Napoleonic period. "We do not appear to me," he wrote, "to be half alarmed enough, or to entertain that sense...leads to the most obvious means of self-defence." Sydney Smith, however, merely wished to substitute the fear of doing injustice for the fear of doing... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1845 - 686 pàgines
...to the disparagement of English officers, — they have had no means of acquiring experience ; but I do say it to create alarm : for we do not appear...of the peasantry in making a gallant defence behind * Byron's name Tor the author of 1'lymley. hedge-rows, and through plate-racks and hencoops, highly... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1845 - 682 pàgines
...to the disparagement of English officers, — they have had no means of acquiring experience ; but I do say it to create alarm : for we do not appear...of the peasantry in making a gallant defence behind * Byron's name for the author of Plymley. hedge-rows, and through plate-racks and hencoops, highly... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1848 - 580 pàgines
...this to the disparagement of English ofiicers : they have had no means of acquiring experience ; but I do say it to create alarm ; for we do not appear...plate-racks and hen-coops, highly as I think of their braver}7, I do not know any nation in Europe so likely to be struck with the panic as the English ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pàgines
...fears, the British rulers neglected i he obvious meani of self-defence against THE FRENCH INVASION. As for the spirit of the peasantry in making a gallant...their bravery, I do not know any nation in Europe go likely to be struck with panic as the English; and this from their total unacquaintance with sciences... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1852 - 246 pàgines
...this to the disparagement of English officers : they have had no means of acquiring experience ; but I do say it to create alarm ; for we do not appear...and hen-coops, highly as I think of their bravery, 1 do not know any nation in Europe so likely to be struck with panic as the English; and this from... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pàgines
...fears, tlie British rulers neglected the obvious means of selfdefence against THE FRENCH INVASION. As for the spirit of the peasantry in making a gallant...and hencoops, highly as I think of their bravery, 1 do not know any nation in Europe so likely to be struck with panic as the English ; and this from... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 502 pàgines
...this to the disparagement of English officers ; they have had no means of acquiring experience ; but I do say it to create alarm ; for we do not appear,...a gallant defence behind 'hedge-rows, and through plnteracks and hen-coops, highly as I think of their bravery, I do not know any nation in Europe so... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pàgines
...these fears, the British rulers neglected the ohvious means of selfdefence against THE FRENCH INVASION. As for the spirit of the peasantry in making a gallant defence hehind hedgerows, and through plate-racks and hencoops, highly as I think of their hravery, I do not... | |
| |
