The works of ... Sydney Smith, including his contributions to the Edinburgh review1859 |
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Pàgina 23
... perhaps , no great balance of good or harm . To some men it would be an inducement to be- come senators ; to others , induced by more honourable motives , it would af- ford the means of supporting that si- tuation without disgrace ...
... perhaps , no great balance of good or harm . To some men it would be an inducement to be- come senators ; to others , induced by more honourable motives , it would af- ford the means of supporting that si- tuation without disgrace ...
Pàgina 23
... perhaps abso- lutely necessary to its security , but it transacts a considerable share of the business of the nation , as well in the framing of laws as in the discharge of its juridical functions . But men of A most sensible and ...
... perhaps abso- lutely necessary to its security , but it transacts a considerable share of the business of the nation , as well in the framing of laws as in the discharge of its juridical functions . But men of A most sensible and ...
Pàgina 46
... Perhaps a fault of all others which the English are least disposed to pardon . A young man , who , on a public occasion , makes a false quantity at the outset of life , can seldom or never get over it . and beautiful of her own sex ...
... Perhaps a fault of all others which the English are least disposed to pardon . A young man , who , on a public occasion , makes a false quantity at the outset of life , can seldom or never get over it . and beautiful of her own sex ...
Pàgina 57
... perhaps more favoured in all 22 of the line , and 10 frigates . * in Denmark , than in any other king- dom of Europe ; they have half the portion which the law allots to legiti- mate children , and the whole if there are no legitimate ...
... perhaps more favoured in all 22 of the line , and 10 frigates . * in Denmark , than in any other king- dom of Europe ; they have half the portion which the law allots to legiti- mate children , and the whole if there are no legitimate ...
Pàgina 63
... perhaps cautious in excess . We are convinced that everything he says is true ; but we have been sometimes in- duced to suspect that we do not see the whole truth . After all , perhaps . he has told as much truth as he could do ...
... perhaps cautious in excess . We are convinced that everything he says is true ; but we have been sometimes in- duced to suspect that we do not see the whole truth . After all , perhaps . he has told as much truth as he could do ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 217 - The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and works, to faith, and calling upon God ; wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Pàgina 111 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Pàgina 134 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Pàgina 3 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Pàgina 134 - 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 151 - 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 111 - The object is, to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures — habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy, — occupations that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and therefore death less terrible...
Pàgina 217 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam...
Pàgina 168 - ... 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 on for fifty years, without one side-look, without one yielding thought, without one motive in his heart which he might not have laid open to the view of God and man.
Pàgina 257 - Latin ; and then go on to another fable, till he be also perfect in that, not omitting what he is already perfect in, but sometimes reviewing that, to. keep it in his memory. And when he comes to write, let these be set him for copies; which, with the exercise of his hand; will also advance him in Latin. This being a more imperfect way than by talking Latin unto him, the formation of the verbs first, and afterwards the de.clensions of the nouns...