The Works of Sydney Smith, Volumen3Longman, 1839 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abraham annum Archbishop of Canterbury ballot believe better Bill Bishop of London Cathedrals Catholic emancipation charity Christian Church of England Clergy Clergyman Commission Commissioners common compelled confiscation Curate danger Dean and Chapter defend diocese Dissenters duty Ecclesiastical election emancipation enemies English established Europe evil existence favour feelings folly friends give happiness hatred honest honour House human injustice Ireland Joseph Hume Judge justice King land landlord liberty live Lord Castlereagh Lord Hawkesbury Lord John Lord John Russell mankind manner means measure ment ministers nation never oath object offices opinions parish Parliament parochial passions patronage Paul's Perceval persecution person political Pope Prebendaries Prebends Prelates present principle profession Protestant question reason Reform religion religious sect Spencer Perceval spirit suppose tenant Test Acts testant thing tholics tion vote Whig whole wisdom
Pasajes populares
Página 254 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Página 17 - 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 183 - And he answering, said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Página 271 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any : even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Página 291 - I have before said, the moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots.
Página 295 - You may not be aware of it yourself, most reverend Abraham, but you deny their freedom to the Catholics upon the same principle that Sarah your wife refuses to give the receipt for a ham or a gooseberry dumpling ; she values her receipts, not because they secure to her a certain flavour, but because they remind her that her neighbours want it — a feeling laughable in a priestess, shameful in a priest ; venial when it withholds the blessings of a ham, tyrannical and execrable when it narrows the...
Página 370 - Vendee—and in this way only will Ireland ever be subdued. But this, in the eyes of Mr. Perceval, is imbecility and meanness. Houses are not broken open, women are not insulted, the people seem all to be happy; they are not rode over by horses, and cut by whips. Do you call this vigour? Is this government?
Página 4 - I distinctly admit that every man has a right to do what he pleases with his own.
Página 218 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by law within this realm : and I do solemnly swear, that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion or Protestant government in the United Kingdom...
Página 322 - You might get together an hundred thousand men individually brave ; but, without generals capable of commanding such a machine, it would be as useless as a first-rate man-of-war manned by Oxford clergymen, or Parisian shopkeepers. I do not say this to the disparagement of English officers, — they have had no means of acquiring experience ; but I do say it to create alarm : for we do not appear to me to be half alarmed enough, or to entertain that sense of our...