The Works of Sydney SmithE. G. Taylor, 1844 - 333 sider |
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... probably the reality , of the interference of a book- among barbarous people : and when compared to as- maker - a species of gentlemen who are now almost be - sassination , is a prodigious victory gained over human come necessary to ...
... probably the reality , of the interference of a book- among barbarous people : and when compared to as- maker - a species of gentlemen who are now almost be - sassination , is a prodigious victory gained over human come necessary to ...
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... probably the reason why the breed of hogs has been so much kept under . The increase of cultivated lands between the two periods is prodigious . It appears ( p . 319 , ) that the whole number of con- victs imported between January 1788 ...
... probably the reason why the breed of hogs has been so much kept under . The increase of cultivated lands between the two periods is prodigious . It appears ( p . 319 , ) that the whole number of con- victs imported between January 1788 ...
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... probably be the case , there is no doubt but a week or feelingly deplored , appears to us a principle which , more would be gained by it ; and the expense , with the in able hands , might be guided to the most salutary wear and tear of ...
... probably be the case , there is no doubt but a week or feelingly deplored , appears to us a principle which , more would be gained by it ; and the expense , with the in able hands , might be guided to the most salutary wear and tear of ...
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... probably perpetuated by the policy of the chiefs . In the first place , the power of partitioning being lodged in their hands , made them the most absolute of tyrants , being the dispensers of the property as well as of the liberty of ...
... probably perpetuated by the policy of the chiefs . In the first place , the power of partitioning being lodged in their hands , made them the most absolute of tyrants , being the dispensers of the property as well as of the liberty of ...
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... probably be able long to bear it . The ship is like a taber- nacle ; and really there is much external reformation . Capt . raises no objection . I have near a hundred lers , for every pound they spend on the road , should fling one ...
... probably be able long to bear it . The ship is like a taber- nacle ; and really there is much external reformation . Capt . raises no objection . I have near a hundred lers , for every pound they spend on the road , should fling one ...
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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.