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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... notice , are totally disregarded . Thus , too ,, ease of speculation and the pride of dog- when any dazzling phantoms of universal matism , for the toil of practice . To a class philanthropy have seized our attention , of artificial and ...
... notice , are totally disregarded . Thus , too ,, ease of speculation and the pride of dog- when any dazzling phantoms of universal matism , for the toil of practice . To a class philanthropy have seized our attention , of artificial and ...
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... notice , power , and wealth - that the penalty which an individual client pays for choosing a bad advocate , is the loss of his cause- that a prime minister must infallibly suffer in the estimation of the public , who neglects to ...
... notice , power , and wealth - that the penalty which an individual client pays for choosing a bad advocate , is the loss of his cause- that a prime minister must infallibly suffer in the estimation of the public , who neglects to ...
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... notice every singular train of rea- soning into which Mr. Bowles falls , is not possible ; and , in the copious choice of evils , we shall , from feelings of mercy , take the least . It must not be forgotten , he observes , that " those ...
... notice every singular train of rea- soning into which Mr. Bowles falls , is not possible ; and , in the copious choice of evils , we shall , from feelings of mercy , take the least . It must not be forgotten , he observes , that " those ...
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... notice of errors that have been so fre- quently , and so unanswerably exposed ; but when they are echoed from the bench and the pulpit , the dignity of the teacher may perhaps communicate some degree of importance to the silliest and ...
... notice of errors that have been so fre- quently , and so unanswerably exposed ; but when they are echoed from the bench and the pulpit , the dignity of the teacher may perhaps communicate some degree of importance to the silliest and ...
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... notice of anybody whom it may perceive ; and thus inducing him to follow the course it points out , leads him to the tree where the bees have concealed their treasure ; after the apiary has been robbed , this feathered scoundrel gleans ...
... notice of anybody whom it may perceive ; and thus inducing him to follow the course it points out , leads him to the tree where the bees have concealed their treasure ; after the apiary has been robbed , this feathered scoundrel gleans ...
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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.