The Works of Sydney SmithE. G. Taylor, 1844 - 333 páginas |
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... absurdity of attributing the high price of corn to the combinations of farmers , was the common non- sense talked in the days of my youth . I remember when ten judges out of twelve laid down this doctrine in their charges to the various ...
... absurdity of attributing the high price of corn to the combinations of farmers , was the common non- sense talked in the days of my youth . I remember when ten judges out of twelve laid down this doctrine in their charges to the various ...
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... absurd are those systems which proscribe the acquisi - perused in the parish of St. Giles , the ancient avoca tions of science and the restraints of law , and would tion of picking pockets will certainly not become more arrest the ...
... absurd are those systems which proscribe the acquisi - perused in the parish of St. Giles , the ancient avoca tions of science and the restraints of law , and would tion of picking pockets will certainly not become more arrest the ...
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... absurdity evince a considerable degree of ingenuity and contri- which we are led to expect in the creed of a barbarous vance in the structure of their houses , which are ren- people . In politics they appear to be scarcely advan - dered ...
... absurdity evince a considerable degree of ingenuity and contri- which we are led to expect in the creed of a barbarous vance in the structure of their houses , which are ren- people . In politics they appear to be scarcely advan - dered ...
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... absurd disposition , to Folved in the womb of time . depreciate their native country . They are incapable of considering a foreign people but under one single point of view - the relation in which they stand to their own ; and the whole ...
... absurd disposition , to Folved in the womb of time . depreciate their native country . They are incapable of considering a foreign people but under one single point of view - the relation in which they stand to their own ; and the whole ...
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... absurdity of controlling men's notions of eternity by acts of Parliament . Something may perhaps be done , in the way of ridi- cule , towards turning the popular opinion . It may as well to extend the privileges of the dissenters to the ...
... absurdity of controlling men's notions of eternity by acts of Parliament . Something may perhaps be done , in the way of ridi- cule , towards turning the popular opinion . It may as well to extend the privileges of the dissenters to the ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 297 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.