Sydney Smith eBook

George William Erskine Russell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 279 pages of information about Sydney Smith.

Sydney Smith eBook

George William Erskine Russell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 279 pages of information about Sydney Smith.

[157] See Appendix E.

[158] William IV.

[159] Charles Richard Fox (1796-1873).

[160] Benjamin West (1738-1820).

[161] Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846).

[162] I am indebted for this tradition to the Rev. H.S.  Holland, D.D.,
    Canon of St. Paul’s.

[163] John Allen was nicknamed “Lady Holland’s Atheist.”

[164] Bishop of Gloucester.

[165] Bishop of London.

[166] Bishop of Durham.

[167] Bishop of Peterborough.

[168] Quoted by Mr. Stuart Reid.

[169] Praeterita, vol.  II. chap. ix.

[170] Jane Marcet (1769-1858), authoress of Conversations on
    Chemistry
.

[171] See Appendix C.

[172] Comus.

[173] See Appendix D.

[174] Compare his attack on Hobbes, of whom he says that his “dirty
    recreation” of smoking did not interrupt any “immoral, irreligious, or
    unmathematical track of thought in which he happened to be engaged.”—­
    Lectures on Moral Philosophy, xxvi.

[175] Dixit insipiens in corde suo; Non est Deus.—­Psalm xiv.

[176] July 14, 1833.  “I have ever considered and kept the day as the start
    of the religious movement of 1833.”—­CARDINAL NEWMAN, Apologia.

[177] In early life he wrote from Edinburgh;—­“In England, I maintain,
    (except among ladies in the middle rank of life) there is no religion
    at all.  The Clergy of England have no more influence over the people
    at large than the Cheesemongers of England.”

[178] By Mr. Stuart Reid.

[179] St. Luke ix. 62.

[180] “What can we think of the fitness of a man to address his Queen and
    his country in the dogmatical strain of this pamphlet, who does not
    know the New Testament from the Old; the Psalms from the Gospel, David
    from Simeon; who expatiates so pompously on the duty and benefit of
    prayer, yet mistakes and miscalls a portion of the Common Prayer,
    which he is bound in law and in conscience to repeat every evening of
    his life.”—­Quarterly Review, July 1837.

    The reference is to the Sermon on the Queen’s Accession.  The blunder
    was rectified in a later edition.

[181] He said this of Lord Grey.

APPENDIX A

LIST OF SYDNEY SMITH’S ARTICLES IN THE EDINBURGH REVIEW

Vol.     Art.      Page.
1         2        18
1         3        24
1         9        83
1        12        94
1        16       113
1        18       122
1        20       128
1         6       314
1        10       382
2         2        30
2         4        53
2         6        86
2        14       136
2        17       172
2        22       202
2         2       287

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