Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithWiddleton, 1870 - 458 pages |
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... carried that place in the election of 1820 , finally , retiring from Parliament at the dissolution in 1826. The concluding period of his life was passed in lettered and social ease and in retirement . His sympathies were intimately ...
... carried that place in the election of 1820 , finally , retiring from Parliament at the dissolution in 1826. The concluding period of his life was passed in lettered and social ease and in retirement . His sympathies were intimately ...
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... carrying his powers of mind , well suited to the profession , to the bar ; his father settled the matter by choosing for him the church . Sydney , who was a practical optimist , acquiesced and was installed in 1794 as a humble curate in ...
... carrying his powers of mind , well suited to the profession , to the bar ; his father settled the matter by choosing for him the church . Sydney , who was a practical optimist , acquiesced and was installed in 1794 as a humble curate in ...
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... carry his point against infidelity by big words and strong abuse , and kick and cuff men into Christians . " A Mr. John Bowles is also pungently rebuked for his vulgar style of writing on the affairs of France . In fine , there is proof ...
... carry his point against infidelity by big words and strong abuse , and kick and cuff men into Christians . " A Mr. John Bowles is also pungently rebuked for his vulgar style of writing on the affairs of France . In fine , there is proof ...
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... carry his talents to London , as the best mart of intellect and literature , doubtless looking for a better field for his pulpit oratory , with better chances of church promotion than the scant episcopacy of Scotland af- forded . He had ...
... carry his talents to London , as the best mart of intellect and literature , doubtless looking for a better field for his pulpit oratory , with better chances of church promotion than the scant episcopacy of Scotland af- forded . He had ...
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... carried away his audience , the lectu- rer would have consoled himself with his own philosophy , laughed at the folly of the town , and kept his head on his shoulders for a more lucky time . Sydney Smith , following the definition of ...
... carried away his audience , the lectu- rer would have consoled himself with his own philosophy , laughed at the folly of the town , and kept his head on his shoulders for a more lucky time . Sydney Smith , following the definition of ...
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Page 214 - ... love that which, if you are poor, will render your poverty respectable, and make the proudest feel it unjust to laugh at the meanness of your fortunes ; love that which will comfort you, adorn you, and never quit you, — which will open to you the kingdom of thought, and all the boundless regions of conception, as an asylum against the cruelty, the injustice, and the pain that may be your lot in the outer world, — that which will make your motives habitually great and honourable, and light...
Page 195 - ... restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 214 - ... intimidated by the cheerless beginnings of knowledge, by the darkness from which she springs, by the difficulties which hover around her, by the wretched habitations in which she dwells, by the want and sorrow which sometimes journey in her train ; but let him ever follow her as the Angel that guards him, and as the Genius of his life. She will bring him out at last into the light of day, and exhibit him to the world comprehensive in acquirements, fertile in resources, rich in imagination, strong...
Page 323 - In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Parting-ton's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Page 98 - With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room.
Page 195 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 317 - I cannot describe the horror and disgust which I felt at hearing Mr. Perceval call upon the then Ministry for measures of vigour in Ireland. If I lived at Hampstead upon stewed meats and claret; if I walked to church every Sunday before eleven young gentlemen of my own begetting, with their faces washed, and their hair pleasingly combed; if the Almighty had blessed me with every earthly comfort— how awfully would I pause before I sent forth the flame and the sword over the cabins of the poor, brave,...
Page 203 - It would be an extremely profitable thing to draw up a short and well-authenticated account of the habits of study of the most celebrated writers with whose style of literary industry we happen to be most acquainted. It would go very far to destroy the absurd and pernicious association of genius and idleness, by showing that the greatest poets, orators...
Page 63 - Bill for the improvement of the Game Laws ; and in an instant offers the assistance of Government for the abolition of the whole code.
Page 312 - Old wheat and beans blazing for twenty miles round; cart mares shot; sows of Lord Somerville's* breed running wild over the country; the minister of the parish wounded sorely in his hinder parts; Mrs. Plymley in fits; all these scenes of war an Austrian or a Russian has seen three or four times...