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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... taken off the bearing- rein from the English people , as Sir Francis Head has now done from horses . To set on foot such a Journal in such times , to contribute towards it for many years , to bear patiently the reproach and poverty ...
... taken off the bearing- rein from the English people , as Sir Francis Head has now done from horses . To set on foot such a Journal in such times , to contribute towards it for many years , to bear patiently the reproach and poverty ...
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... taken a clear and satis- factory view of the subject . Nature impels us both to good and bad actions ; and , even in the former , gives us no measure by which we may prevent them from degenerating into excess . Rapine and revenge are ...
... taken a clear and satis- factory view of the subject . Nature impels us both to good and bad actions ; and , even in the former , gives us no measure by which we may prevent them from degenerating into excess . Rapine and revenge are ...
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... taken of the young , the unwary , and the inebri- ated , which superior coolness , skill , address , and activity can supply , we must look upon pretences to honesty as a most shameless aggravation of their crimes . Even if it were ...
... taken of the young , the unwary , and the inebri- ated , which superior coolness , skill , address , and activity can supply , we must look upon pretences to honesty as a most shameless aggravation of their crimes . Even if it were ...
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... taken that side of the question which may be as lucrative to himself as it is inimical to human happiness , and repugnant to enlightened policy . Of Dr. Rennel's talents as a rea- soner , we certainly have formed no very high opinion ...
... taken that side of the question which may be as lucrative to himself as it is inimical to human happiness , and repugnant to enlightened policy . Of Dr. Rennel's talents as a rea- soner , we certainly have formed no very high opinion ...
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... taken , that we shall give the passage at full length , cautiously abstaining from the sin of translating it . 66 Quand je reproche aux philosophes d'avoir vanté l'Angleterre , par haine pour les institutions qui soutenoient la France ...
... taken , that we shall give the passage at full length , cautiously abstaining from the sin of translating it . 66 Quand je reproche aux philosophes d'avoir vanté l'Angleterre , par haine pour les institutions qui soutenoient la France ...
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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...