The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith, Volum 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848 |
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... knowledge and experience , to perform all the manifold functions of a free constitution , is to entrust valuable , delicate , and abstruse mechanism , to the rudest skill and the grossest ignorance . Public acts may confer liberty ; but ...
... knowledge and experience , to perform all the manifold functions of a free constitution , is to entrust valuable , delicate , and abstruse mechanism , to the rudest skill and the grossest ignorance . Public acts may confer liberty ; but ...
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... knowledge of the progress of human affairs , from actual experience , which is considered to be only accessible to the con- jectural reflections of enlightened minds . Human nature , under very old governments , is so trimmed , and ...
... knowledge of the progress of human affairs , from actual experience , which is considered to be only accessible to the con- jectural reflections of enlightened minds . Human nature , under very old governments , is so trimmed , and ...
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... knowledge would be extremely serviceable to the interests which this Romu- lus of the Southern Pole is superintending ) , it is rather unfair to exact from a superintendent of pick - pockets , that he should be a philosopher . In the ...
... knowledge would be extremely serviceable to the interests which this Romu- lus of the Southern Pole is superintending ) , it is rather unfair to exact from a superintendent of pick - pockets , that he should be a philosopher . In the ...
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... knowledge of our criminal law , is said to have de- clared himself thoroughly informed upon the subject , after remaining precisely two and thirty minutes in the Old Bailey . 3dly . The tendency to found observation on a system , rather ...
... knowledge of our criminal law , is said to have de- clared himself thoroughly informed upon the subject , after remaining precisely two and thirty minutes in the Old Bailey . 3dly . The tendency to found observation on a system , rather ...
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... knowledge of the people . The account he has given of them is extremely entertaining , and written in a very simple and un- affected style ; so much so , indeed , that he presents his reader with a very grave account of the noise the ...
... knowledge of the people . The account he has given of them is extremely entertaining , and written in a very simple and un- affected style ; so much so , indeed , that he presents his reader with a very grave account of the noise the ...
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Side 426 - 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.
Side 424 - 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.