The Works of Sydney SmithE. G. Taylor, 1844 - 333 páginas |
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... honour , they may duct to be guided by those affections which have been perhaps be flattered by the Doctor's politeness , but long sanctioned by the approbation of mankind , than to they can never be much edified by his meaning . Dr ...
... honour , they may duct to be guided by those affections which have been perhaps be flattered by the Doctor's politeness , but long sanctioned by the approbation of mankind , than to they can never be much edified by his meaning . Dr ...
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... honours , calculated ( we are wil- species of composition to which it is their peculiar ing to hope ) to produce the happiest effects . duty , as well as their ordinary habit , to attend . To We were very sorry , in reading Dr. Parr's ...
... honours , calculated ( we are wil- species of composition to which it is their peculiar ing to hope ) to produce the happiest effects . duty , as well as their ordinary habit , to attend . To We were very sorry , in reading Dr. Parr's ...
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... honour and to wealth ; and really is . To prove such a permanence beneficial , ( if that no felon will hear a verdict of not guilty without it were possible ) , we must have recourse to matter of considering himself as cut off in the ...
... honour and to wealth ; and really is . To prove such a permanence beneficial , ( if that no felon will hear a verdict of not guilty without it were possible ) , we must have recourse to matter of considering himself as cut off in the ...
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... honour of the dear Redeemer for its professed object . It to patronize and encourage an undertaking that has the ists and voluptuaries . The expressions by which ought ever to be remembered , that every talent we possess , they ...
... honour of the dear Redeemer for its professed object . It to patronize and encourage an undertaking that has the ists and voluptuaries . The expressions by which ought ever to be remembered , that every talent we possess , they ...
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... honour them ; and sent me and my colleagues to preach life to images in some part of the Bible which I had not seen ; I them . I then told them of Christ , his death , his person , his hesitated , and complied ; but I love Christianity ...
... honour them ; and sent me and my colleagues to preach life to images in some part of the Bible which I had not seen ; I them . I then told them of Christ , his death , his person , his hesitated , and complied ; but I love Christianity ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 299 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm...