 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...  The New Monthly Magazine - Page 95by William Francis Ainsworth - 1878Full view - About this book
 | 1848 - 704 pages
...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. The strivings... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 420 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Periodicals - 1850 - 612 pages
...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 pages
...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 do those... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Calendar reform - 1852 - 328 pages
...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 OF PARLIAMENTARY... | |
 | 1852 - 374 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Calendar reform - 1852 - 314 pages
...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... | |
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