The Works of Sydney Smith, Volume 1Longman, 1839 |
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... observations on human conduct , without ever rising so high as to touch the great passions , or kindle any enthusiasm in favour of virtue . For eloquence , we must ascend as high as the days of Barrow and Jeremy Taylor : and even there ...
... observations on human conduct , without ever rising so high as to touch the great passions , or kindle any enthusiasm in favour of virtue . For eloquence , we must ascend as high as the days of Barrow and Jeremy Taylor : and even there ...
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... conscience , they even imitate . To such , let the Scripture speak with emphatical decision - When thou sawest a thief , then thou consentedst with him . ' The reader will easily observe , in this quotation , DR . RENNEL . 15.
... conscience , they even imitate . To such , let the Scripture speak with emphatical decision - When thou sawest a thief , then thou consentedst with him . ' The reader will easily observe , in this quotation , DR . RENNEL . 15.
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Sydney Smith. The reader will easily observe , in this quotation , a command of language , and a power of style , very superior to what is met with in the great mass of sermons . We shall make one more extract . ' But in addition to ...
Sydney Smith. The reader will easily observe , in this quotation , a command of language , and a power of style , very superior to what is met with in the great mass of sermons . We shall make one more extract . ' But in addition to ...
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... to escape , when it chooses dullness for the minister of its gratifications . * This was another gentleman of the alarmist tribe . The learned author , after observing , that a large 30 ARCHDEACON NARES . Archdeacon Nares.
... to escape , when it chooses dullness for the minister of its gratifications . * This was another gentleman of the alarmist tribe . The learned author , after observing , that a large 30 ARCHDEACON NARES . Archdeacon Nares.
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Sydney Smith. The learned author , after observing , that a large army praying would be a much finer spectacle than a large army fighting , and after entertaining us with the old anecdote of Xerxes , and the flood of tears , proceeds to ...
Sydney Smith. The learned author , after observing , that a large army praying would be a much finer spectacle than a large army fighting , and after entertaining us with the old anecdote of Xerxes , and the flood of tears , proceeds to ...
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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.