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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... fact . Pulpit dis- courses have insensibly dwindled from speaking to reading ; a practice , of itself , sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence . It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that mankind can be very powerfully ...
... fact . Pulpit dis- courses have insensibly dwindled from speaking to reading ; a practice , of itself , sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence . It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that mankind can be very powerfully ...
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... fact , have originated motives which has always commanded in them , without any exclusive right their homage and admiration : if they do not choose wealth , they choose birth or talents , or military fame ; and of all these species of ...
... fact , have originated motives which has always commanded in them , without any exclusive right their homage and admiration : if they do not choose wealth , they choose birth or talents , or military fame ; and of all these species of ...
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... fact display , more strongly , the state of public opinion with regard to the probability of a future restoration of these estates , either partial or total ? and can any circumstance facilitate the execution of such a project , more ...
... fact display , more strongly , the state of public opinion with regard to the probability of a future restoration of these estates , either partial or total ? and can any circumstance facilitate the execution of such a project , more ...
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... fact , sure of novelty has ceased . For these and judge of the rude state of society , reasons , it is humane to restore him to not from the praises of tranquil literati , sight . but from the narratives of those who have seen it ...
... fact , sure of novelty has ceased . For these and judge of the rude state of society , reasons , it is humane to restore him to not from the praises of tranquil literati , sight . but from the narratives of those who have seen it ...
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... fact , at once , indicative either of the ferocity of manners in any people , or , more probably , of the ster- ility of their country ; but which , in the present instance , proceeds from both these causes . The force of population can ...
... fact , at once , indicative either of the ferocity of manners in any people , or , more probably , of the ster- ility of their country ; but which , in the present instance , proceeds from both these causes . The force of population can ...
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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 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 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 - 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 292 - In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book?
Page 291 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added...
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 292 - ... to persuade their supporters that they are the greatest, the most refined, the most enlightened, and the most moral people upon earth. The effect of this is unspeakably ludicrous on this side of the Atlantic — and, even on the other, we should imagine, must be rather humiliating to the reasonable part of the population.
Page 247 - But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science, and genius, in bales and hogsheads ? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come.
Page 1 - Episcopal limits behind, and swells out into boundless convexity of frizz, the yue-ya 6av/ta 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.