The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith: Including His Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1859 - 356 pages |
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... mind , during the struggles it makes to grasp the collective interests of the species ; and when the association ... minds with pharisaical notions of superior wisdom and superior virtue ; and , what is the worst of all , they may be ...
... mind , during the struggles it makes to grasp the collective interests of the species ; and when the association ... minds with pharisaical notions of superior wisdom and superior virtue ; and , what is the worst of all , they may be ...
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... mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line , and page , that he is unable to proceed any further ! The clergy are apt to shelter them- selves under the plea , that subjects so exhausted are utterly incapable of novelty ; and , in the ...
... mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line , and page , that he is unable to proceed any further ! The clergy are apt to shelter them- selves under the plea , that subjects so exhausted are utterly incapable of novelty ; and , in the ...
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... mind , is as solemn and refined a banter as can well be exhibited : for when we take into view the vast latitude allowed by the most upright gamesters , when we reflect that , according to their precious casuistry , every advantage may ...
... mind , is as solemn and refined a banter as can well be exhibited : for when we take into view the vast latitude allowed by the most upright gamesters , when we reflect that , according to their precious casuistry , every advantage may ...
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... mind , on such occasions , so easily outruns ordinary description , that we are apt to feel more , before a mediocre oration begins , than it even aims at inspiring . After the world has returned to its sober senses upon the merits of ...
... mind , on such occasions , so easily outruns ordinary description , that we are apt to feel more , before a mediocre oration begins , than it even aims at inspiring . After the world has returned to its sober senses upon the merits of ...
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... mind a class of fops not usually designated by that epithet men clothed in profound black , with large canes , and strange amorphous hats - of big speech , and imperative presence- talkers about Plato - great affecters of senility ...
... mind a class of fops not usually designated by that epithet men clothed in profound black , with large canes , and strange amorphous hats - of big speech , and imperative presence- talkers about Plato - great affecters of senility ...
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Page 206 - 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.
Page 291 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 205 - 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.
Page 291 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug...
Page 170 - A learned man! — a scholar! — a man of erudition! Upon whom are these epithets of approbation bestowed? Are they given to men acquainted with the science of government? thoroughly masters of the geographical and commercial relations of Europe: to men who know the properties of bodies, and their action upon each other? No: this is not learning; it is chemistry, or political economy — not learning. The distinguishing abstract term, the epithet of Scholar...
Page 129 - ... as are consistent with the laws of Ireland; or as they did enjoy in the reign of King Charles II.; and their Majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a Parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 291 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man...
Page 248 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 1 - ¡itya. ааица. of barbers, and the terror of the literary world. After the manner of his wig, the Doctor has constructed his sermon, giving us a discourse of no common length, and subjoining an immeasurable mass of notes, which appear to concern every learned thing, every learned man, and almost every unlearned man since the beginning of the world.
Page vii - From the beginning of the century (about which time the Eeview began) to the death of Lord Liverpool, was an awful period for those who had the misfortune to entertain liberal opinions, and who were too honest to sell them for the ermine of the judge, or the lawn of the prelate...