The Works of Sydney SmithE. G. Taylor, 1844 - 333 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... common length , and subjoining an immeasurable mass of notes , which appear to concern every learned thing , every learned man , and almost every unlearned man since the beginning of the world . For his text , Dr. Parr has chosen Gal ...
... common length , and subjoining an immeasurable mass of notes , which appear to concern every learned thing , every learned man , and almost every unlearned man since the beginning of the world . For his text , Dr. Parr has chosen Gal ...
Pàgina 9
... common . commendation bestowed upon its state of public edu . place morality ; and if the fulfilment of such expecta ration , that they have , since the publication of his tions be meritorious , the clergy have certainly the book , we ...
... common . commendation bestowed upon its state of public edu . place morality ; and if the fulfilment of such expecta ration , that they have , since the publication of his tions be meritorious , the clergy have certainly the book , we ...
Pàgina 11
... common among lascivious set of beings , than are to be met with in the theological writers ) of taking the thing to be proved , most profligate court in Europe . There is , every now for part of the proof , can be considered as evidence ...
... common among lascivious set of beings , than are to be met with in the theological writers ) of taking the thing to be proved , most profligate court in Europe . There is , every now for part of the proof , can be considered as evidence ...
Pàgina 12
... common observer : but this is not all ; there are other proofs of treason and sedition , equally remote , sagacious and profound . Many good subjects are not very much pleased with the idea of the Whig Club dining together ; but Mr ...
... common observer : but this is not all ; there are other proofs of treason and sedition , equally remote , sagacious and profound . Many good subjects are not very much pleased with the idea of the Whig Club dining together ; but Mr ...
Pàgina 19
... common enjoyment , to turn for a while from the memory of those distractions which have so recently agitated the Old World , and to reflect that ts very horrors and crimes may have thus prepared a ng era of opulence and peace for a ...
... common enjoyment , to turn for a while from the memory of those distractions which have so recently agitated the Old World , and to reflect that ts very horrors and crimes may have thus prepared a ng era of opulence and peace for a ...
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Pàgina 122 - PREDESTINATION to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.
Pàgina 95 - ... 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 the ribands of the bride ; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Pàgina 95 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Pàgina 96 - 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? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered, or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? What have they done in the mathematics? Who drinks out of American glasses? or eats from American plates? or wears American coats or gowns?...
Pàgina 77 - But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, gristmills, are their natural objects for centuries to come.
Pàgina 77 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other.
Pàgina 95 - ... 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 ribbons of the bride : at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Pàgina 264 - 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.
Pàgina 218 - ... margins of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement), all conduce to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess.
Pàgina 299 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm...