The Works of Sydney SmithE. G. Taylor, 1844 - 333 pàgines |
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Pàgina 8
... happiness ; and of this principle , he thus speaks : ' I admit and I approve of it as an emotion of which gene- ral happiness is the cause , but not as a passion , of which , according to the usual order of human affairs , it could ...
... happiness ; and of this principle , he thus speaks : ' I admit and I approve of it as an emotion of which gene- ral happiness is the cause , but not as a passion , of which , according to the usual order of human affairs , it could ...
Pàgina 11
... happiness , ty man is under of obeying it , it is rather extraordi- and repugnant to enlightened policy . nary that Homer should be so good a natural theolo- Of Dr. Rennel's talents as a reasoner , we certainly gian , when the ...
... happiness , ty man is under of obeying it , it is rather extraordi- and repugnant to enlightened policy . nary that Homer should be so good a natural theolo- Of Dr. Rennel's talents as a reasoner , we certainly gian , when the ...
Pàgina 12
... happiness is me- naced , by the present thinness of ladies ' petticoats ( p . 78 ) , temerity may hope our salvation , but how can reason promise it ? One solitary gleam of comfort , indeed beams upon us in reading the solemn devotion ...
... happiness is me- naced , by the present thinness of ladies ' petticoats ( p . 78 ) , temerity may hope our salvation , but how can reason promise it ? One solitary gleam of comfort , indeed beams upon us in reading the solemn devotion ...
Pàgina 15
... happiness is within our reach . All pains and besides , begun under every possible disadvantage ; it is pleasures are clearly by comparison ; but the most de- too distant to be long governed , or well defended ; it plorable savage ...
... happiness is within our reach . All pains and besides , begun under every possible disadvantage ; it is pleasures are clearly by comparison ; but the most de- too distant to be long governed , or well defended ; it plorable savage ...
Pàgina 18
... happiness and in- crease . Man seems to move in his proper sphere while he is thus dedicating the powers of his mind and and bring back from a residence in foreign countries nothing 18 WORKS OF THE REV . SIDNEY SMITH .
... happiness and in- crease . Man seems to move in his proper sphere while he is thus dedicating the powers of his mind and and bring back from a residence in foreign countries nothing 18 WORKS OF THE REV . SIDNEY SMITH .
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Pàgina 262 - 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 93 - 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...
Pàgina 297 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm...
Pàgina 93 - ... 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 93 - 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...
Pàgina 100 - 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...
Pàgina 97 - ... 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.
Pàgina 9 - ... 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...
Pàgina 94 - 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...
Pàgina 229 - 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.