A memoir of ... Sydney Smith. With a selection from his letters, ed. by mrs. [S.] Austin, Band 2 |
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admirable affectionate friend afraid agreeable amuse beautiful believe Bishop bless Brougham Castle Howard Catholic Church clergy Combe Florey COUNTESS GREY COUNTESS OF CARLISLE dear Allen dear Jeffrey dear Lady Grey dear Lady Holland dear Lord Grey dear Murray dear Philips dear Sir delighted dine dinner Duke EARL GREY Edinburgh Review England excellent favour Foston FRANCIS JEFFREY Georgiana give glad going gout Green-street Grote happy hear Heslington Holland House honour hope Horner Howick JOHN ALLEN JOHN MURRAY kind regards Lady Davy letter live London Lord Holland Mackintosh MARY BENNETT mean Meynell Miss Morpeth never obliged opinion pamphlet Paris pleased pleasure Pray tell respect Scotch sermon sincere friend sorry suppose sure SYDNEY SMITH thanks thing thought tion Tories town truly Whigs Whishaw wish write written
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Seite 418 - Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound; If chance, with nymph-like step, fair virgin pass What pleasing seem'd, for her now pleases more; She most, and in her look sums all delight...
Seite 418 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Seite 294 - The new Beer Bill has begun its operations. Everybody is drunk. Those who are not singing are sprawling. The sovereign people are in a beastly state.
Seite 443 - Still I can preach a little ; and I wish you had witnessed, the other day, at St. Paul's, my incredible boldness in attacking the Puseyites. I told them that they made the Christian religion a religion of postures and ceremonies, of circumflexions and genuflexions, of garments and vestures, of ostentation and parade ; that they took up tithe of mint and cummin, and neglected the weightier matters of the law, — justice, mercy, and the duties of life ; and so forth.
Seite 208 - Of all ingenious instruments of despotism," said Sydney Smith, "I most commend a popular assembly where the majority are paid and hired, and a few bold and able men, by their brave speeches, make the people believe they are free."— Mem.
Seite 230 - ... raising fleets and armies to make all men good and happy ? We have just done saving Europe, and I am afraid the consequence will be, that we shall cut each other's throats. No war, dear Lady Grey ! — no eloquence ; but apathy, selfishness, common sense, arithmetic ! I beseech you, secure Lord Grey's sword and pistols, as the housekeeper did Don Quixote's armour. If there is another war, life will not be worth having.
Seite 516 - I dine with the rich in London, and physic the poor in the country; passing from the sauces of Dives to the sores of Lazarus. I am, upon the whole, a happy man; have found the world an enter-taining world, and am thankful to providence for the part allotted to me in it.
Seite 425 - Correspondences are like small-clothes before the invention of suspenders ; it is impossible to keep them up.
Seite 485 - I had eaten and drunk forty four-horse waggon-loads of meat and drink more than would have preserved me in life and health ! The value of this mass of nourishment I considered to be worth seven thousand pounds sterling. It occurred to me that I must, by my voracity, have starved to death fully a hundred persons. This is a frightful calculation, but irresistibly true...
Seite 271 - I hate the insolence, persecution, and intolerance which so often pass under the name of religion, and (as you know) I have fought against them ; but I have an unaffected horror of irreligion and impiety ; and every principle of suspicion and fear would be excited in me by a man who professed himself an infidel.