The Works of Sydney Smith, Volume 1Longman, 1839 |
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... Liberality is now a lucrative business . Whoever has any institution to destroy , may consider himself as a commissioner , and his fortune as made ; and to my utter and never ending astonishment , I , an old PREFACE . ix.
... Liberality is now a lucrative business . Whoever has any institution to destroy , may consider himself as a commissioner , and his fortune as made ; and to my utter and never ending astonishment , I , an old PREFACE . ix.
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... consider this , though of no very difficult execution , to be by far the best part of the sermon , we shall very willingly make some extracts from it . To me it appears , that the modern advocates for uni- versal philanthropy have ...
... consider this , though of no very difficult execution , to be by far the best part of the sermon , we shall very willingly make some extracts from it . To me it appears , that the modern advocates for uni- versal philanthropy have ...
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... consider , how a body of men so well educated , and so magnificently endowed as the English clergy , should distinguish themselves so little in a species of composition to which it is their peculiar duty , as well as their ordinary ...
... consider , how a body of men so well educated , and so magnificently endowed as the English clergy , should distinguish themselves so little in a species of composition to which it is their peculiar duty , as well as their ordinary ...
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... consider the man who tires them less than usual , as a trifler , or a char- latan . Of British education , the study of eloquence makes little or no part . The exterior graces of a speaker are despised ; and debating societies ...
... consider the man who tires them less than usual , as a trifler , or a char- latan . Of British education , the study of eloquence makes little or no part . The exterior graces of a speaker are despised ; and debating societies ...
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... considers the works of Homer to be the region and depositary of natural law , and natural religion . * Now , if , by natural religion , is meant the will of God collected from his works , and the necessity man is under of obeying it ...
... considers the works of Homer to be the region and depositary of natural law , and natural religion . * Now , if , by natural religion , is meant the will of God collected from his works , and the necessity man is under of obeying it ...
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Page 282 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there ; save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the grace of God.
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Page 280 - 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.