The Works of the Rev. Sydney SmithE.G. Taylor, 1846 - 333 pages |
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... answered to any animadversions upon the elo- quence of the English pulpit , that a clergyman is to recommend himself , not by his eloquence , but by the purity of his life , and the soundness of his doctrine an objection good enough ...
... answered to any animadversions upon the elo- quence of the English pulpit , that a clergyman is to recommend himself , not by his eloquence , but by the purity of his life , and the soundness of his doctrine an objection good enough ...
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... answering . This affectation The reader will easily observe , in this quotation , a command of language , and a ... answered , FEROCITY OF DISPOSITION , however for a time disguised and because they are unanswerable . While every body ...
... answering . This affectation The reader will easily observe , in this quotation , a command of language , and a ... answered , FEROCITY OF DISPOSITION , however for a time disguised and because they are unanswerable . While every body ...
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... Lancaster . He was delighted with this Review , and made Sir Herbert Taylor read it a second time to him and therefore her answer to him is without any ar- EDGWORTH ON BULLS . 21 Trimmer and Lancaster Poor-Laws Trimmer and Lancaster.
... Lancaster . He was delighted with this Review , and made Sir Herbert Taylor read it a second time to him and therefore her answer to him is without any ar- EDGWORTH ON BULLS . 21 Trimmer and Lancaster Poor-Laws Trimmer and Lancaster.
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... answer to this deplorable ignorance to say , there is an act of Parliament for public instruction ? - to show the very line and chapter where the King , Lords , and Commons , in Parliament assembled , or - ground adjoining the school ...
... answer to this deplorable ignorance to say , there is an act of Parliament for public instruction ? - to show the very line and chapter where the King , Lords , and Commons , in Parliament assembled , or - ground adjoining the school ...
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... answer . That it has rapidly increased within these few years , we have no manner of doubt ; and we confess we cannot see what is like- ly to impede its progress . The party which it has formed in the Legislature ; and the artful ...
... answer . That it has rapidly increased within these few years , we have no manner of doubt ; and we confess we cannot see what is like- ly to impede its progress . The party which it has formed in the Legislature ; and the artful ...
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Page 112 - THE condition of man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith and calling upon God : Wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God, by Christ, preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 112 - PREDESTINATION to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.
Page 67 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 85 - 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 that 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...
Page 85 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten 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 86 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons?
Page 3 - ... restoring to life persons in whom the vital power is suspended. He was discovered with Dr. Langford's discourse lying open before him, in a state of the most profound sleep, from which he could not, by any means, be awakened for a great length of time. By attending, however, to the rules prescribed by the Humane Society, flinging in the smoke of tobacco, applying hot flannels, and carefully removing the discourse itself to a great distance, the critic was restored to his disconsolate brothers.
Page 44 - As long as boys and girls run about in the dirt, and trundle hoops together, they are both precisely alike. If you catch up one half of these creatures, and train them to a particular set of actions and opinions, and the other half to a perfectly opposite set, of course their understandings will differ, as one or the other sort of occupations has called this or that talent into action. There is surely no occasion to go into any deeper or more abstruse reasoning, in order to explain so very simple...
Page 247 - I do not mean to be disrespectful ; but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town ; the tide rose to an incredible height ; the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction.
Page 289 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm...