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... carried that place in the election of 1820 , finally , retiring from Parliament at the dissolution in 1826. The concluding period of his life was passed in lettered and social ease and in retirement . His sympathies were intimately ...
... carried that place in the election of 1820 , finally , retiring from Parliament at the dissolution in 1826. The concluding period of his life was passed in lettered and social ease and in retirement . His sympathies were intimately ...
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... carrying his powers of mind , well suited to the profession , to the bar ; his father settled the matter by choosing for him the church . Sydney , who was a practical optimist , acquiesced and was installed in 1794 as a humble curate in ...
... carrying his powers of mind , well suited to the profession , to the bar ; his father settled the matter by choosing for him the church . Sydney , who was a practical optimist , acquiesced and was installed in 1794 as a humble curate in ...
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... carry his point against infidelity by big words and strong abuse , and kick and cuff men into Christians . " A Mr. John Bowles is also pungently rebuked for his vulgar style of writing on the affairs of France . In fine , there is proof ...
... carry his point against infidelity by big words and strong abuse , and kick and cuff men into Christians . " A Mr. John Bowles is also pungently rebuked for his vulgar style of writing on the affairs of France . In fine , there is proof ...
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... carry his talents to London , as the best mart of intellect and literature , doubtless looking for a better field for his pulpit oratory , with better chances of church promotion than the scant episcopacy of Scotland af- He had preached ...
... carry his talents to London , as the best mart of intellect and literature , doubtless looking for a better field for his pulpit oratory , with better chances of church promotion than the scant episcopacy of Scotland af- He had preached ...
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... carried away his audience , the lectu- rer would have consoled himself with his own philosophy , laughed at the folly of the town , and kept his head on his shoulders for a more lucky time . Sydney Smith , following the definition of ...
... carried away his audience , the lectu- rer would have consoled himself with his own philosophy , laughed at the folly of the town , and kept his head on his shoulders for a more lucky time . Sydney Smith , following the definition of ...
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Page 188 - The schoolboy 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...
Page 190 - 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...
Page 310 - In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Page 188 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten 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.
Page 397 - 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 Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 64 - Russell; but his worst failure is that he is utterly ignorant of all moral fear; there is nothing he would not undertake. I believe he would perform the operation for the stone - build St. Peter's - or assume (with or without ten minutes...
Page 89 - With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room.
Page 188 - ... 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 ihe ribands of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 187 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything 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...
Page 431 - His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.