Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney SmithWiddleton, 1856 - 458 oldal |
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... Catholic Church , " 1845 ; " Letters on Railway Management , " and other topics , to the Morning Chronicle ; Articles in the Edinburgh Review not collected in his " Works ; " numerous Sketches and Essays printed in the " Memoirs , " by ...
... Catholic Church , " 1845 ; " Letters on Railway Management , " and other topics , to the Morning Chronicle ; Articles in the Edinburgh Review not collected in his " Works ; " numerous Sketches and Essays printed in the " Memoirs , " by ...
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... CATHOLIC CHURCH 363 LETTER ON THE CHARACTER OF SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH 379 RECOLLECTIONS OF FRANCIS HORNER . 387 PASSAGES FROM LETTERS 392 TABLE TALK - ANECDOTES 417 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR . SYDNEY SMITH * was born at Woodford.
... CATHOLIC CHURCH 363 LETTER ON THE CHARACTER OF SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH 379 RECOLLECTIONS OF FRANCIS HORNER . 387 PASSAGES FROM LETTERS 392 TABLE TALK - ANECDOTES 417 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR . SYDNEY SMITH * was born at Woodford.
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... Catholics , to my Brother Abraham , who lives in the Country , by Peter Plymley . They were ten in number , and followed in quick succession , disturbing not a little the equanimity of the ministry of Canning and Perceval , by their ...
... Catholics , to my Brother Abraham , who lives in the Country , by Peter Plymley . They were ten in number , and followed in quick succession , disturbing not a little the equanimity of the ministry of Canning and Perceval , by their ...
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... now too much reason to believe that the system of greater latitude , attempted naturally enough in the new world , will end fatally for the Christian religion , and for good 42 THE CATHOLIC QUESTION . practical morality . " Sydney.
... now too much reason to believe that the system of greater latitude , attempted naturally enough in the new world , will end fatally for the Christian religion , and for good 42 THE CATHOLIC QUESTION . practical morality . " Sydney.
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... Catholic emancipation : " It is now only difficult to tranquillize Ireland , before it was impossible . As to the dan- ger from Catholic doctrines , I must leave such apprehensions to the respectable anility of these realms . " One of ...
... Catholic emancipation : " It is now only difficult to tranquillize Ireland , before it was impossible . As to the dan- ger from Catholic doctrines , I must leave such apprehensions to the respectable anility of these realms . " One of ...
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414. oldal - 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.
187. oldal - 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...
189. oldal - 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?
397. oldal - 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.
65. oldal - 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...
187. oldal - ... 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.
101. oldal - 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.
396. oldal - 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...
430. oldal - 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.
224. oldal - 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...