The Works of Sydney Smith, Volume 1Longman, 1839 |
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... give the most dangerous triumph over the genuine and salutary dictates of nature . They delude and inflame our minds ... gives us no measure by which we may prevent them from de- generating into excess . Rapine and revenge , are not less ...
... give the most dangerous triumph over the genuine and salutary dictates of nature . They delude and inflame our minds ... gives us no measure by which we may prevent them from de- generating into excess . Rapine and revenge , are not less ...
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... give a general impression of heaviness to the whole sermon . The Doctor is never simple and natural for a single instant . Every thing smells of the rhetorician . He never appears to forget himself , or to be hurried by his subject into ...
... give a general impression of heaviness to the whole sermon . The Doctor is never simple and natural for a single instant . Every thing smells of the rhetorician . He never appears to forget himself , or to be hurried by his subject into ...
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... gives effi- cacy , countenance , and concurrence . Even his virtues he suffers to be subsidiary to the cause of vice . He sees , with calmness , depredation committed daily and hourly in his company , perhaps under his very roof . Yet ...
... gives effi- cacy , countenance , and concurrence . Even his virtues he suffers to be subsidiary to the cause of vice . He sees , with calmness , depredation committed daily and hourly in his company , perhaps under his very roof . Yet ...
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... give of himself was , that he remembers reading on , regularly , till he came to the following pathetic description of a drowned tradesman ; beyond which , he recollects nothing . But to the individual himself , as a man , let us add ...
... give of himself was , that he remembers reading on , regularly , till he came to the following pathetic description of a drowned tradesman ; beyond which , he recollects nothing . But to the individual himself , as a man , let us add ...
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... give us a most awful lesson of the vanity of agriculture and importation without piety , and that he has proved this to the conviction of every thinking mind . Though he interpose not ( says Mr. Nares ) by positive miracle , he ...
... give us a most awful lesson of the vanity of agriculture and importation without piety , and that he has proved this to the conviction of every thinking mind . Though he interpose not ( says Mr. Nares ) by positive miracle , he ...
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Page 282 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there ; save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the grace of God.
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Page 16 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 280 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.