If we look to what the waters produce, shoals of the fry of fish frequent the margins of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the... The Works of Sydney Smith - Page 198by Sydney Smith - 1840Full view - About this book
| William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...it, (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement,) all conduce to shew their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess. Walking by the sea side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently... | |
| William Paley - God - 1811 - 574 pages
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| Natural history - 1822 - 192 pages
...the sea itself. These are so happy that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attiludes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it, all concur to shew their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess. In watching; by... | |
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...the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it, (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement,) all conduce to shew their... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolicks in it, all conduce to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess. Walking by the seaside, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently... | |
| William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement), all conduce to shew their... | |
| William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...water, Their frolies in it, (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement,) all conduce to show their excess of spirits . and are simply the effects of that excess. Walking by the sea-side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore. and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently... | |
| William Paley, Edmund Paley - Bible - 1825 - 424 pages
...water, their frolics in it (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement), all conduce to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess. Walking by the sea-side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently... | |
| William Paley - Theology - 1825 - 440 pages
...the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement), all conduce to show their... | |
| William Paley - Natural history - 1826 - 320 pages
...water their frolics in it, (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement,) all conduce to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects if that excess. Walking by the sea side, in a calm even$LT/hT 1 '. and alW8 " V8 ' retir7n * wi!h »'ew»?Pr-!... | |
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