The Works of Sydney SmithE. G. Taylor, 1844 - 333 頁 |
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第 11 頁
... liberty and power of Great Britain , we will venture to assert , that it is also the death - warrant of Mr. Bowles's literary reputation ; and that the people of this island , if they verify his predictions , and cease to read his books ...
... liberty and power of Great Britain , we will venture to assert , that it is also the death - warrant of Mr. Bowles's literary reputation ; and that the people of this island , if they verify his predictions , and cease to read his books ...
第 12 頁
... liberty . ' merits by investigating their origin . We seriously of sentiments is good , we would not diminish their So that all questions of right and wrong , between the commend in Mr. Bowles this future dedication of his governors and ...
... liberty . ' merits by investigating their origin . We seriously of sentiments is good , we would not diminish their So that all questions of right and wrong , between the commend in Mr. Bowles this future dedication of his governors and ...
第 14 頁
... liberty we take in commenting on a few passages in his play which ap- pear to us rather exceptionable . The only information which Cæsario , imagining his father to have been dead for many years , receives of his existence , is in the ...
... liberty we take in commenting on a few passages in his play which ap- pear to us rather exceptionable . The only information which Cæsario , imagining his father to have been dead for many years , receives of his existence , is in the ...
第 19 頁
... liberty of the press ; that the opera band plays out of tune ; that the English are so fond of drinking , that they get drunk with a certain air called the gas of Paradise ; that the privilege of electing members of parliament is so bur ...
... liberty of the press ; that the opera band plays out of tune ; that the English are so fond of drinking , that they get drunk with a certain air called the gas of Paradise ; that the privilege of electing members of parliament is so bur ...
第 20 頁
... liberty which Parmenio used with his friend Alexander , instead of putting his seal upon the lips of the curious impertinent , the English gentleman thought proper to reprove the Hibernian , if not with delicacy , at least with poetical ...
... liberty which Parmenio used with his friend Alexander , instead of putting his seal upon the lips of the curious impertinent , the English gentleman thought proper to reprove the Hibernian , if not with delicacy , at least with poetical ...
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第 122 頁 - PREDESTINATION to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.
第 95 頁 - ... 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 the ribands of the bride ; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
第 95 頁 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 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.
第 96 頁 - 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? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered, or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? What have they done in the mathematics? Who drinks out of American glasses? or eats from American plates? or wears American coats or gowns?...
第 77 頁 - But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, gristmills, are their natural objects for centuries to come.
第 77 頁 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other.
第 95 頁 - ... 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 ribbons of the bride : at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
第 264 頁 - 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.
第 218 頁 - ... margins of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement), all conduce to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess.
第 299 頁 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm...