The Works of Sydney Smith, Volume 1Longman, 1839 |
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... thing , * A great scholar , as rude and violent as most Greek scholars are , unless they happen to be Bishops . He has left nothing behind him worth leaving he was rather fitted for the law than the church , and would have been a more ...
... thing , * A great scholar , as rude and violent as most Greek scholars are , unless they happen to be Bishops . He has left nothing behind him worth leaving he was rather fitted for the law than the church , and would have been a more ...
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... thing , of universal good ; a principle which sanctifies and limits the more particular affections . The duty of a son to a parent , or a parent to a son , is not an ultimate principle of morals , but depends on the principle of ...
... thing , of universal good ; a principle which sanctifies and limits the more particular affections . The duty of a son to a parent , or a parent to a son , is not an ultimate principle of morals , but depends on the principle of ...
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... thing smells of the rhetorician . He never appears to forget himself , or to be hurried by his subject into obvious language . Every expression seems to be the result of artifice and intention ; and as to the worthy de- dicatees , the ...
... thing smells of the rhetorician . He never appears to forget himself , or to be hurried by his subject into obvious language . Every expression seems to be the result of artifice and intention ; and as to the worthy de- dicatees , the ...
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... things without a great number of other things . In spite of 32 pages of very close printing , in defence of the University of Oxford , is it , or is it not true , that very many of its Professors enjoy ample salaries , without reading ...
... things without a great number of other things . In spite of 32 pages of very close printing , in defence of the University of Oxford , is it , or is it not true , that very many of its Professors enjoy ample salaries , without reading ...
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... thing to talk about the shallow impostures , and the silly ignorant sophisms of Voltaire , Rousseau , Condorcet , D'Alembert , and Volney , and to say that Hume is not worth answering . This af fectation of contempt will not do . While ...
... thing to talk about the shallow impostures , and the silly ignorant sophisms of Voltaire , Rousseau , Condorcet , D'Alembert , and Volney , and to say that Hume is not worth answering . This af fectation of contempt will not do . While ...
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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 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.