The Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith: A Selection of the Most Memorable Passages in His Writings and Conversation |
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To say a word against the suitorcide delays of the Court of Chancery , or the cruel punishments of the Game - laws , or against any abuse which a rich man inflicted and a poor man suffered , was treason against the plousiocracy ...
To say a word against the suitorcide delays of the Court of Chancery , or the cruel punishments of the Game - laws , or against any abuse which a rich man inflicted and a poor man suffered , was treason against the plousiocracy ...
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The Catholics were not emancipated - the Corporation and Test Acts were unrepealed - the Game Laws were horribly oppressiveSteel Traps and Spring Guns were set all over the country - Prisoners tried for their Lives could have no Counsel ...
The Catholics were not emancipated - the Corporation and Test Acts were unrepealed - the Game Laws were horribly oppressiveSteel Traps and Spring Guns were set all over the country - Prisoners tried for their Lives could have no Counsel ...
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The Poor Laws were gradually sapping the vitals of the country ; and whatever miseries I suffered , I had no post to whisk my complaints for a single penny to the remotest corners of the empire ; and yet , in spite of all these ...
The Poor Laws were gradually sapping the vitals of the country ; and whatever miseries I suffered , I had no post to whisk my complaints for a single penny to the remotest corners of the empire ; and yet , in spite of all these ...
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... that they must live for a century in that state of perilous uncertainty in which every revolutionised nation remains , before rational liberty becomes feeling and habit , as well as law , and is written in the hearts of men as ...
... that they must live for a century in that state of perilous uncertainty in which every revolutionised nation remains , before rational liberty becomes feeling and habit , as well as law , and is written in the hearts of men as ...
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... its population amounts only to six millions , and it is not condensed in such masses as the population of Europe . After all , an experiment of twenty years is never to be cited in 122 SALIC LAW - LIFE PEERAGES . politics ; nothing.
... its population amounts only to six millions , and it is not condensed in such masses as the population of Europe . After all , an experiment of twenty years is never to be cited in 122 SALIC LAW - LIFE PEERAGES . politics ; nothing.
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