The Works of Sydney SmithE. G. Taylor, 1844 - 333 sider |
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... mind , is as solemn and refined a ban- ter as can well be exhibited : for when we take into view the vast latitude allowed by the most upright gamesters , when we reflect that , according to their precious casuistry every advantage may ...
... mind , is as solemn and refined a ban- ter as can well be exhibited : for when we take into view the vast latitude allowed by the most upright gamesters , when we reflect that , according to their precious casuistry every advantage may ...
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... mind , during the struggles it makes to grasp the collective interests of the species ; and when the association ... minds with pharisaical notions of superior wisdom and superior vir tue ; and what is the worst of all , they may ...
... mind , during the struggles it makes to grasp the collective interests of the species ; and when the association ... minds with pharisaical notions of superior wisdom and superior vir tue ; and what is the worst of all , they may ...
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... mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line , and page , that he is unable to pro- ceed any farther ! The prejudices of the English nation have proceed . ed a good deal from their hatred to the French ; and because that country is the ...
... mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line , and page , that he is unable to pro- ceed any farther ! The prejudices of the English nation have proceed . ed a good deal from their hatred to the French ; and because that country is the ...
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... mind , is as solemn and refined a ban- ter as can well be exhibited : for when we take into view the vast latitude allowed by the most upright gamesters , when we reflect that , according to their precious casuistry every advantage may ...
... mind , is as solemn and refined a ban- ter as can well be exhibited : for when we take into view the vast latitude allowed by the most upright gamesters , when we reflect that , according to their precious casuistry every advantage may ...
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... mind a class of fops not unusually designated by that epithet - men clothed in profound black , with large canes , and strange amorphous hats of big speech , and impera- tive presence - talkers about Plato - great affecters of senility ...
... mind a class of fops not unusually designated by that epithet - men clothed in profound black , with large canes , and strange amorphous hats of big speech , and impera- tive presence - talkers about Plato - great affecters of senility ...
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Side 258 - 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 89 - 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 293 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm...
Side 89 - ... 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 89 - 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 96 - 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 93 - ... 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 5 - ... 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 90 - 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 225 - 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.