The Works of Sydney SmithE. G. Taylor, 1844 - 333 sider |
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... common . sommendation bestowed upon its state of public edu . place morality ; and if the fulfilment of such expecta cation , that they have , since the publication of his tions be meritorious , the clergy have certainly the book , we ...
... common . sommendation bestowed upon its state of public edu . place morality ; and if the fulfilment of such expecta cation , that they have , since the publication of his tions be meritorious , the clergy have certainly the book , we ...
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... common among lascivious set of beings , than are to be met with in the theological writers ) of taking the thing to be proved , most profligate court in Europe . There is , every now for part of the proof , can be considered as evidence ...
... common among lascivious set of beings , than are to be met with in the theological writers ) of taking the thing to be proved , most profligate court in Europe . There is , every now for part of the proof , can be considered as evidence ...
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... common observer : but this is not all ; there are other proofs of treason and sedition , equally remote , sagacious and profound . Many good subjects are not very much pleased with the idea of the Whig Club dining together ; but Mr ...
... common observer : but this is not all ; there are other proofs of treason and sedition , equally remote , sagacious and profound . Many good subjects are not very much pleased with the idea of the Whig Club dining together ; but Mr ...
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... common enjoyment , to turn for a while from the memory of those distractions which have so recently agitated the Old World , and to reflect that ts very horrors and crimes may have thus prepared a ong era of opulence and peace for a ...
... common enjoyment , to turn for a while from the memory of those distractions which have so recently agitated the Old World , and to reflect that ts very horrors and crimes may have thus prepared a ong era of opulence and peace for a ...
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... common with every one else , to lay her complaint before the public ; but a right to publish praises must be earned by something more difficult than the writing sixpenny books for chil- dren . This may be very good ; though we never re ...
... common with every one else , to lay her complaint before the public ; but a right to publish praises must be earned by something more difficult than the writing sixpenny books for chil- dren . This may be very good ; though we never re ...
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Side 262 - Are you really my son Esau, or not?" 22 So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Side 93 - The school-boy 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...
Side 297 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm...
Side 93 - ... 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 bride ; at bed or board; couchant or levant, we must pay.
Side 93 - Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory ; — taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste— taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Side 100 - He was so born, and so gifted, that poetry, forensic skill, elegant literature, and all the highest attainments of human genius were within his reach ; but he thought the noblest occupation of a man was to make other men happy and free ; and in that straight line he went...
Side 97 - ... been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes, not in order to alleviate the distresses of the tenantry, but that they might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents they already paid. The poor people of Munster lived in a more abject state of poverty than human nature could be supposed equal to bear.
Side 9 - ... can be very powerfully affected. What can be more ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervour of a week old; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardour of his mind; and so affected at a preconcerted line, and page, that he is unable to proceed any...
Side 94 - 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...
Side 229 - Thus, not only had all Ireland suffered confiscation in the course of this century, but no inconsiderable portion of it had been twice and even thrice confiscated. Well might Lord Clare say, ' that the situation of the Irish nation, at the Revolution, stands unparalleled in the history of the inhabited world.