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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... perhaps ideal . If , indeed , the repre- sentations we have lately heard of universal philanthropy served only to amuse the fancy of those who approve of them , and to communicate that pleasure which arises from contemplating the ...
... perhaps ideal . If , indeed , the repre- sentations we have lately heard of universal philanthropy served only to amuse the fancy of those who approve of them , and to communicate that pleasure which arises from contemplating the ...
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... perhaps be flattered Parr combats the general objections of by the Doctor's politeness , but they can Mr. Turgot to all charitable institutions , never be much edified by his meaning . with considerable vigour and success . Dr. Parr ...
... perhaps be flattered Parr combats the general objections of by the Doctor's politeness , but they can Mr. Turgot to all charitable institutions , never be much edified by his meaning . with considerable vigour and success . Dr. Parr ...
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... perhaps under his very roof . Yet men of this de- scription declaim ( so desperately deceitful is the heart of man ) against the very knaves they cherish and protect , and whom , per- haps , with some poor sophistical refuge for a worn ...
... perhaps under his very roof . Yet men of this de- scription declaim ( so desperately deceitful is the heart of man ) against the very knaves they cherish and protect , and whom , per- haps , with some poor sophistical refuge for a worn ...
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... perhaps be more con- vinced , by calling to mind a class of fops not usually designated by that epithet - men clothed in profound black , with large canes , and strange amorphous hats - of big speech , and imperative presence - talkers ...
... perhaps be more con- vinced , by calling to mind a class of fops not usually designated by that epithet - men clothed in profound black , with large canes , and strange amorphous hats - of big speech , and imperative presence - talkers ...
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... perhaps communicate some degree of importance to the silliest and most extravagant doctrines . Though he interpose not ( says Mr. Nares ) by positive miracle , he in- fluences by means unknown to all but himself , and directs the winds ...
... perhaps communicate some degree of importance to the silliest and most extravagant doctrines . Though he interpose not ( says Mr. Nares ) by positive miracle , he in- fluences by means unknown to all but himself , and directs the winds ...
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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.