tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post112110198716112931..comments2024-03-23T01:31:13.502+01:00Comments on Jabal al-Lughat: The American LanguageLameen Souag الأمين سواقhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773164776222840428noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-26622367071816921682007-01-23T04:49:00.000+01:002007-01-23T04:49:00.000+01:00There are lots of better things that Sydney Smith ...There are lots of better things that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Smith">Sydney Smith</a> is remembered for, notably (on two wrangling publicans on opposite sides of the street) "They will never agree, for they are arguing from different premis(s)es."<br /><br />And then there's his comment on a dinner party with candle sconces mounted close to the ceiling: "I like it not at all, Sir: above there is a blaze of light, and below, nothing but darkness and gnashing of teeth."<br /><br />Lastly and apocryphally, when a painter asked Smith to sit for him, he replied "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?" The painter, however, denied that he "ever did or ever could ask so ugly a fellow to sit for him."John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com