Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithWiddleton, 1856 - 458 pages |
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... passion for foreign travel , and a mania , not a little destruc- tive to his finances , for building and altering country - houses in vari- ous parts of England . He married a lady of beauty and accom- plishments , Miss Olier , of ...
... passion for foreign travel , and a mania , not a little destruc- tive to his finances , for building and altering country - houses in vari- ous parts of England . He married a lady of beauty and accom- plishments , Miss Olier , of ...
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... passion for government is made to appear a virtue in excess . " Here it is , " Smith exclaims , citing a charge of rashness against the Bishop's classical emendations , " qualis ab incepto . He begins with Eschylus , and ends with the ...
... passion for government is made to appear a virtue in excess . " Here it is , " Smith exclaims , citing a charge of rashness against the Bishop's classical emendations , " qualis ab incepto . He begins with Eschylus , and ends with the ...
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... passions ; but in a studious arrrangement of sonorous , exotic , and sesquipedal words : a very ancient error , which corrupts the style of young , and wearies the patience of sensible men . In some of his combinations of words the ...
... passions ; but in a studious arrrangement of sonorous , exotic , and sesquipedal words : a very ancient error , which corrupts the style of young , and wearies the patience of sensible men . In some of his combinations of words the ...
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... humility which builds general inferences only upon the repetition of individual facts . Everything † From a review of " Lettres sur l'Angleterre . Par J. Fievée . " Ed . Rov . April , 1803 . 110 CAUSES OF ERROR . he sees shocks some ...
... humility which builds general inferences only upon the repetition of individual facts . Everything † From a review of " Lettres sur l'Angleterre . Par J. Fievée . " Ed . Rov . April , 1803 . 110 CAUSES OF ERROR . he sees shocks some ...
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Sydney Smith. 110 CAUSES OF ERROR . he sees shocks some passion or flatters it ; and he is perpetually seduced to distort facts , so as to render them agreeable to his sys- tem and his feelings ! Books of travels are now published in ...
Sydney Smith. 110 CAUSES OF ERROR . he sees shocks some passion or flatters it ; and he is perpetually seduced to distort facts , so as to render them agreeable to his sys- tem and his feelings ! Books of travels are now published in ...
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Page 414 - O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Page 187 - 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 189 - 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?
Page 397 - Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound; If chance with nymph-like step fair virgin pass, What pleasing seemed, for her now pleases more, She most, and in her look sums all delight.
Page 65 - Russell; but his worst failure is that he is utterly ignorant of all moral fear; there is nothing he would not undertake. I believe he would perform the operation for the stone - build St. Peter's - or assume (with or without ten minutes...
Page 187 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes 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 ihe ribands of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 101 - That he was not scrupulously pious in some part of his life, is known by many idle and indecent applications of sentences taken from the Scriptures ; a mode of merriment which a good man dreads for its profaneness, and a witty man disdains for its easiness and vulgarity.
Page 396 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms...
Page 430 - His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Page 224 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...