Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith

visitor, who had tried it once, began to titter; and Sydney, after attempting a weak apology for his practice, heartily joined in the laugh, exclaiming: "What a story you will make of this, when you next breakfast with Rogers, and how he and Luttrell will triumph in it!"

A BISHOP'S COURTSHIP.

was going to marry.

SOME one asked if the Bishop of "Perhaps he may-yet how can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is, 'I will see you in the vestry after service.'"

TITHES.

Ir is an atrocious way of paying the clergy. The custom of tithe in kind will seem incredible to our posterity; no one will believe in the ramiferous priest officiating in the cornfield.

ILLUSIONS.

WE naturally lose illusions as we get older, like teeth; but there is no Cartwright to fit a new set into our understandings. I have, alas! only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

INDEX.

Acknowledgment of Game, 414.
Affectations of Knowledge, 197.
Affection and the Thermometer, 404.
Affections, Uses of the Evil, 246.
Age, Benefits of Knowledge to, 152.
Airy, G. P., Epigram on, 403.
Allen, John, Notices of, 20, 91, 414.
America, Articles on, 184-194.
Travellers in, 396.
Visit to, 409.

American Debts, 415.

Letters on, 69, 353–362.

Angling, Clerical, 449.
Antediluvian Authorship, 120.
Anti-Cholera, 403.
Anti-Melancholy, 423.
Anti-War, 399.

Apologue of the Village, 307.
Apostolical Succession, 446.
Argillaceous Immortality, 398.
Articles, the, and the Muses, 446.
Assumptions, 448.

Athenæum, London, quoted, 396.
Aurungzebe, 240.

Austin, Sarah, Edits Correspondence,
10; Notice of Smith's Preaching, 98.
Aversions and Arguments, 412.
Ballot, the, 68.

Banks, Sir Joseph, 172.

Bentham, Jeremy, 160; Book of Fal-
lacies, 162.

Berkeley, Hon. G. F., 119
Bernard, Sir Thomas, Notices of, 30,

35.

Bible, Beauty of the Style of, 423.
Bishop, a Real, 375.

Sacrifice of, on a Railroad, 350.

Bishop's Courtship, 452.

Bishops, Advice to, 331.

and Patronage, 329.
Saturday Night, 337.

Conversations,

Blair, Hugh, 22.
Blessington, Lady,
quoted, 443.
Blind, the, 263.
Bloomfield, Bishop, 65.
Bluecoat Theory, 412.
Blue-stockings, 424.
Bobus Smith, see Robert.
Body, of the, 278.

Bombarding the Asiatics, 410.
Booked, 447.
Bore, a, 412.

Borough System, the, 318.
Botany Bay, Description of, 157-159
Bourne, Sturges, 305.
Breakfast, a, 409.

Brougham, Henry, 19; Ed. Review

Barham, R. H., Diary of, quoted, 101, 27; the Court of Chancery, 320.

435, 443

Barn-door Fowl, 133

Barrow, Dr., Sermons, 33.

Beach, Mr. Hick, 17; Letters of Smith
to, 18.

Beautiful, Incentives of the, 237; Ac-
tion of the, 239.
Bell, Robert, Life of Canning, quoted,

310.

Brown, Isaac Hawkins, 302.
Brown, Thomas, 21, 27.
Buffoonery, 231.

Bull's Charity Subscriptions, 162.
Bulls, Irish, 232.
Bunch, 48. 54.

Burges, James Bland, 24.
Burlesque, 232.

Burning Alive on Railroads, 350

Byron, Lord, Notice of "The Exo-D'Epinay, Madame, 154–156.
diad," 24; of Lady Holland, 89; No- De Quincey, Notice of Robert Smith,
tices of Smith in his Poems, 93; 436. 12.

Campanero, the, 168.

De Stael, Madame, Delphine, 113.

Campbell, Thomas, Anecdotes of, 22, Diary, Reflections from, 292-4.

89; Lochiel, quoted, 221.
Canning, George, 10, 160; his

Dickens, Charles, Letters to, 407-9.
Para-Digestion and the Virtues, 404.
Dinner in the Country, 420.
Dinner Table Conversation, 450.
Discussing, Habit of, 203.
Disputant, A, 446.
Dogs, 421, 430.
Dome of St. Paul's, 434.
Dort, Chronicle of, 332.
Doubling the Cape, 445.
Doyle, Dr., 367.

sites, 301; Character of, 309.
Canvas-Back Ducks, 433.
Carlisle, Lord, Notice of Robert Smith,
14; Notice of, 52;
Carlyle, Thomas, 92.
Castlereagh, Lord, 160.
Cathedral Revenue Bill, 329.
Catholic Church Question, 363-378;
see Peter Plymley.

Catholic Toleration, &c., 41-3; 64.
Caucus, 185.

Caution, in Use of Talent, 214.
Ceylon, Inhabitants of, 111.

Channing, Dr., Sermon preached
St. Paul's, 33.
Charades, 233.
Cheerfulness, of, 282.
Chemistry, 135.

Chesterfield, Lord, quoted, 450.
Childhood, Sensibility of, 418.
Chimney-Sweepers, 159.
Christian Charity, 261.
Church in Danger, 299.

Claphamites, the, 301.

Classes of Society, 431.
Classical Education, 121-131.
Club Life, 38.

Cobbett, Notice of Netheravon, 18.

Combe Florey, Life at, 61-63.

Common Sense for 1810, 46.

Commons, House of, 425.

Composition, 426.

Dress and Beauty, 424.
Drunkenness, 289.
Dunces, 448.

Dwight, Timothy, 187.
at Dying Speeches, 415.
Edinburgh, Visit to, 398.

Conquerors, Use of, 157.
Conversational Cook, 445.
Conversation and Books, 212.
Conversation, Educated, 150.
Cool of the Evening, 447.
Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, Reply
to Ed. Review, 45; Smith's Reply
to, 131-136; Letters of Ward, 440.
Cork, Lady, 429.
Country House, 431.

Courage in the Use of Talent, 201.
Cranzius and Ernesti, 124, 132.

Crashaw, Epigram of, 221.

Edinburgh Review, Early History of
25; Attack on Oxford, 45; Pa..
sages from, 107-194.
Edinburgh Society, 19.

Edmonton, Living of, 67.

Education, Classical, 121-131.

Female, 136-154.

Popular, 274-5.

Elephant, Anecdote of, 243.
Ellis, George, 309.

Emulation, 207.

England in an Invasion, 304.

Erin go Bragh, 366.

Erskine, Lord, Anecdote of, 39.

Essays and Sketches, 278-296.

Everett, Edward, 72; Letter on, 415.
Facts and Figures, 426.
Fagging System, 16.
Fallacies, 283-5.
False Quantities, 115.
Fearon, H. B., 185.
Female Education, 136-154.
Fireplaces, 423.
Foolometer, a, 337.
Foston-le-Clay, 47-57.
Fox, C. J., Saying of, 337.
Fragment on the Irish Roman Cath>
lic Church, 363-378.

Franklin, Benjamin, 62, 315.
Fraser's Gallery of Portraits, 94.

Magazine cited, 119, 436.

Crumpet's Ascent to St. Paul's, 333. Frere, John Hookham, 10.

Crowe, Mrs., Letter to, 410.

Curates, 338, 340, 341.

Delphine, Analysis of 113.

Demerara, 168.

Friendship, of, 281.

Friendship, 433.

Fuller, Dr. Thomas, 102, 259.

Gardener, Scotch, 451.
Gladstone, W. E., 373.
God save the King, 311.
Goderich, Lord, 373.

INDEX.

Good Man and a Bad Minister, 299.
Gout, 409.

Granby, Novel of, 176-9.
Grant, Sir William, 395.

Grattan, Visits Mickleham, 36.
Character of, 161.

Gravity and License, 95-102.
Great Western Railway, 344.
Green, Duff, 71; 359.
Grenville, Thomas, 371.

Grey, Earl, 61; Conduct of the Re-
form Bill, 321; 394, 402.
Habit, Force of, 248; Orbit of, 251;
Superiority to, 251; Effect of, 253.
Half-Measures, 285.
Hallam, Henry, 21.
Hamilton, Alexander, 27.
Handshaking, 426.

Happiness, 434.

Happiness, Past, 248.

Hardness of Character, 286.

Hardships of Public Schools, 154.

Hare, James, 81.

Hawkesbury, Lord, 300.
Haydon, B. R., 36; 73.
Hay-Fever, the, 403.
Heptarchy of the Press, 323.
Hobbes and his Pipe, 248.
Hodgson, Dr., 374.

Holland House, 22, 30; Historical No-

tices of, 86-88; Anecdotes of, 90;
Dinner Party, 395.

Illusions, 452.

Immortality of a Book, 116.

455

Individual Peculiarities and Genius,

213.

Inflictions on Youth, 284.

Inglis, Sir Robert, 371.

Insects of the Tropics, 175.

Instinct and Talent, 241; Change of

Instinct, 242.

Irreligion and Impiety, 400.

Irving, Edward, 402.

Washington, Original Ance-
dote of Luttrell, 443.

Jameson, Mrs., Notice of Sydney
Smith. 10; Character of his Wit, 85.

-to Lady Blessington, 446.
Jeffrey, Francis, 26; Marriage, 46.
and the North Pole, 417;
Lines on, ib.

Jeffrey's Analysis, 393; Hints to, ib.;
His Adjectives, 400.

Jekyll, J., Witticism of, 429.
Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury, 300.

Johnson, Samuel, quoted, 102.
Joinville, Prince de, 370.

Joke in the Country, 426.

Judge, Taylor, and Barber, 186.
Kay, Annie, 50, 55.

Key, Sir John, 446.

King of Clubs, the, 38.

Kinglake, Dr., 317.

Kingsley, Rev. Charles, quoted, 262.
Knowledge, Rewards of, 206; Pleas-
ures of, 216.

Labour and Genius, 195.
Lamb, Charles, 97.

Langford, W., Anniversary Sermon,

Holland, Lady (Saba, daughter of Landseer, Sir Thomas, Anecdote, 102.
Sydney Smith), Memoir of her Fa-
ther, 10; Birth, 30; Marriage to
Sir Henry H., 64.

Holland, Lord (Henry Richard Vas-
sall), Notices of, 88; Lady Holland,
89, 103.

Holland, Sir Henry, Notice of, 64.
Holoplexia, 258.

Hook, Theodore, 450.
Hope, Charles, 21.

Horned Cattle and the Lion, 336.
Horner, Francis, 20; Notice of Smith's
Preaching, 25; Notice of Lectures,
35; Recollections of, 387-391.
Howick, Lord, 306.

Hoyle, Charles, Poem Exodus, 101.
Humour, Nature of, 227-231.
Hunt, Leigh, Notices of Holland
House, 86.

108.

Lapdogs, 430.

Law, Cheapness of, in America, 186.
Letters, Passages from, 392-416.
Lewis, Frankland, 324.
Leyden, John, 21.

Leyden's Sonnet on the Sabbath, 238.
Licensing of Ale-Houses, 179-183.
Life of a Parent, 392.
Light and Shade, 425.
Lister, T. H., 177.

Literature of America, 187-8.
Local English Morals, 156.
Local Moralities, 422.
Lockhart, J. G., 450.
Locking-in on Railways, 344-352.
Longevity and Wisdom, 243.
Lucretius, quoted, 390.

Luttrell, H., Smith's Notices of, 440; New Zealand, Bishop of, 444.
Epigram by, 441; Witticisms of, Nice Person, a, 285.

443; Account of, ib.

Lynch, Judge, 193.

Lyndhurst, Lord, 321.

Niebuhr's Discoveries, 422.

Noah, M. M., Anecdote of, 191.
Noctes Ambrosianæ, 94.
Noodledom, 143.

Macaulay, T. B., 43; Tribute to Hol- Noodle's Oration, 164.

and Lady, 52, 60.

land House, 91.

No-Popery Outery, 183-4.
Notes and Queries, cited, 316.
Novel by Sydney Smith, 443.
Occupation, of, 279.

O'Connell, 326, 365, 369.

Old Age to be Passed in the City
404, 414

Olier, Miss, Birth and Character, 9
Mother of Sydney Smith, 15.
One-Book Man, 425.

Opera, Invitation to, 409, 414.
Oratorio, an, 399.

Oxford UniversityEducation, 121–136.
visited, 392.

Paris visited by Smith, 58-60.
Parishioners, Advice to, 287.
Parody, 232.

of Milton, 405.

Partington, Mrs., 64, 315.

Passions, the, 253.

Paying in Turbot, 394

Monk, Dr., Bishop of Gloucester, 65, Peel, Sir Robert, Letter to, 352, 370.

341.

Montrand and Talleyrand, 437.
Moore, Thomas, Sydney Smith's Me-
moir, 10; Notice of Robert Smith,
13; Anecdote of Newton's Studio,
75; Anecdotes of Smith, 84 98; of
Holland House, 90; Poetical Com-
pliment, 93; Letter to, 401; Diary,
quoted, 437, 445.
Moral Philosophy-Passages from
Lectures, 195–255.
Morgan, Capt. E. E., Correspondent
of Smith, 71-2; Portrait of Smith,

75.

Morley, Countess of, 413.

Philips, Sir George, Notice of, 73.
Pictures, Smith's Purchase of, 425.
Pilpay, Fable from, 360.
Playfair, John, 22.

Plymley Letters, 40, 297-313.

Murray, John A. (Lord Murray), 21, Pope, Parody on, 429.

New Song to an Old Tune, 70.

Porson's Review of the Sovereig▲,
24; Epigram, ib.

Portrait of Sydney Smith, 404.
Practical Joking, 448.
Praise, 434.

Newton, Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of Prancing Indenture, 108.

Smith, 75.

New Zealand Attorney, 422.

Preferment at Court, 401.

Prescott, W. H., 435.

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