Author: Sydney SmithPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 579
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Sydney Smith's Essays
Author: Sydney SmithSydney Smith's Essays
Author: Sydney SmithPublisher:
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Essays, by Sydney Smith. Reprinted from the Edinburgh Review. 1802-1818.
Author: Sydney SmithThe Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith. Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Author: Sydney SmithPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith
Author: Sydney SmithSydney Smith's Essays
Author: Sydney SmithPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330592359
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Excerpt from Sydney Smith's Essays After the manner of his wig, the Doctor has constructed his sermon, giving us a discourse of no common length, and subjoining an immeasurable mass of notes, which appear to concern every learned thing, every learned man, and almost every unlearned man since the beginning of the world. For his text, Dr Parr has chosen Gal. vi. 10. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially to those who are of the household of faith. After a short preliminary comparison between the dangers of the selfish system, and the modern one of universal benevolence, he divides his sermon into two parts: in the first examining how far, by the constitution of human nature, and the circumstances of human life, the principles of particular and universal benevolence are compatible: in the last, commenting on the nature of the charitable institution for which he is preaching. The former part is levelled against the doctrines of Mr Godwin; and here, Dr Parr exposes, very strongly and happily, the folly of making universal benevolence the immediate motive of our actions. As we 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 modem advocates for universal philanthropy have fallen into the error charged upon those who are fascinated by a violent and extraordinary fondness for what a celebrated author calls 'some moral species.' Some men, it has been remarked, are hurried into romantic adventures, by their excessive admiration of fortitude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Peter Plymley's Letters, and Selected Essays
Author: Sydney SmithPublisher:
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Category : Catholic emancipation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Essays, Social and Political - Second Series
Author: Sydney SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781473318960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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This early work by Sydney Smith was originally published in 1825 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Essays, Social and Political - Second Series' is a collection of writings on subjects such as war, native Africans, travels in Turkey, and many other interesting topics. Sydney Smith was born on 3rd June 1771 in Woodford, Essex, England. Smith's first book 'Six Sermons, preached in Charlotte Street Chapel, Edinburgh' was published in 1800. He married Catharine Amelia Pybus in the same year and the couple settled in Edinburgh. While there, he helped set up the 'Edinburgh Review' and became its first editor in 1802. He continued to write articles for the review for the next quarter of the century which were a key element to the publication's success.
Essays
Author: Sydney SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781473318977
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Sydney Smith's Essays (Classic Reprint)
Author: Sydney SmithPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483198500
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Excerpt from Sydney Smith's Essays The idea of danger from the extension of the Catholic religion in England I utterly deride. The Catholic faith is a misfortune to the world, but those whose faith it conscientiously is, are quite right in professing it boldly, and in promoting it by all means which the law allows. A physician does not say, You will be well as soon as the bile is got rid of; but he says, You will not be well until afler the bile is got rid of. He knows, after the cause of the malady is removed, that morbid habits are to be changed, weakness to be supported, organs to be called back to their proper exercise, subordinate maladies to be watched, secondary and vicarious symptoms to be studied. The physician is a wise man - but the anserous politician insists, after two hundred years of persecution, and ten of emancipation, that Catholic Ireland should be as quiet as Edmonton or Tooting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.