The Works of Sydney SmithE. G. Taylor, 1844 - 333 sider |
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... favour of virtue . For eloquence , we must ascend as high as the days of Barrow and Jeremy Taylor : and even there , while we are delighted with their energy , The prejudices of the English nation have proceed . ed a good deal from ...
... favour of virtue . For eloquence , we must ascend as high as the days of Barrow and Jeremy Taylor : and even there , while we are delighted with their energy , The prejudices of the English nation have proceed . ed a good deal from ...
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... favour on the head of their King , or to strain their venal throats in chanting the triumphs of his bitter- est enemies . ' All complaint is futile , which is not followed up with appopriate remedies . If Parliament , or Catarrh , do ...
... favour on the head of their King , or to strain their venal throats in chanting the triumphs of his bitter- est enemies . ' All complaint is futile , which is not followed up with appopriate remedies . If Parliament , or Catarrh , do ...
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... favour- ite with the King , and avails himself of the command of the armies with which he is intrusted , to gratify his revenge for his father's misfortunes , to forward his own ambitious views , and to lay a plot by which he may ...
... favour- ite with the King , and avails himself of the command of the armies with which he is intrusted , to gratify his revenge for his father's misfortunes , to forward his own ambitious views , and to lay a plot by which he may ...
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... favour . Whether the imitation of the actual way of establishing his guilt . There seems for Irish manner be correct in his little stories , we can- a moment to be a strong relation between the means not determine ; but we feel the same ...
... favour . Whether the imitation of the actual way of establishing his guilt . There seems for Irish manner be correct in his little stories , we can- a moment to be a strong relation between the means not determine ; but we feel the same ...
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... favour of them spelling class twenty - five years ago ; and the rest is all matter of course- Jamque faces , et Saxa volant , When Mr. Lancaster finds a little boy with a very dirty face , he sends for a little girl , and makes her wash ...
... favour of them spelling class twenty - five years ago ; and the rest is all matter of course- Jamque faces , et Saxa volant , When Mr. Lancaster finds a little boy with a very dirty face , he sends for a little girl , and makes her wash ...
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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.