The Works of Sydney Smith, Volume 1Longman, 1839 |
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... patient toil and resolute self - denial , when I had not completed my twentieth year . I ceased , therefore , to reside , with an aching heart : I looked back with mingled feelings of regret and humiliation to advantages of which I ...
... patient toil and resolute self - denial , when I had not completed my twentieth year . I ceased , therefore , to reside , with an aching heart : I looked back with mingled feelings of regret and humiliation to advantages of which I ...
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... patients of the latter are fast dwindling away , and his drugs falling into disuse and contempt . The truth is , if Mr. Bowles had began his literary career at a period when superior discrimination , and profound thought , not vulgar ...
... patients of the latter are fast dwindling away , and his drugs falling into disuse and contempt . The truth is , if Mr. Bowles had began his literary career at a period when superior discrimination , and profound thought , not vulgar ...
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... patient humility which builds general inferences only upon the repe- tition of individual facts . Every thing he sees shocks some passion , or flatters it ; and he is perpetually se- duced to distort facts , so as to render them ...
... patient humility which builds general inferences only upon the repe- tition of individual facts . Every thing he sees shocks some passion , or flatters it ; and he is perpetually se- duced to distort facts , so as to render them ...
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... patients have not been driven to insanity by the extravagance of these people . We cannot enter such places without seeing a number of honest artisans , covered with blankets , and calling themselves angels and apostles , who , if they ...
... patients have not been driven to insanity by the extravagance of these people . We cannot enter such places without seeing a number of honest artisans , covered with blankets , and calling themselves angels and apostles , who , if they ...
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... patient well with your nostrums , and then I will step in and complete the cure ; -a more notable expedient we have seldom heard of . Its patrons forget that these self - ordained ministers , with Mr. John Styles at their head ...
... patient well with your nostrums , and then I will step in and complete the cure ; -a more notable expedient we have seldom heard of . Its patrons forget that these self - ordained ministers , with Mr. John Styles at their head ...
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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.