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.
  judgment of various authors, 207 seq.
  affectionate and sympathetic nature, 21, 85, 131, 133, 184, 211, 212,
    216.
  honesty and outspokenness, 21, 124, 129.
  financial affairs, 27, 33, 41, 121, 125, 145.
  friends, 29, 84, 87, 88, 151, 161.
  tolerant nature, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45 seq., 106 seq., 130, 136.
  fancy for dabbling in medicine, 12, 18, 82, 83, 123, 133, 134, 210, 232.
  personal appearance, 122, 154, 193.
  chief pleasures, 133.
  general good qualities, 152, 153.
  not a lover of the country, 159-160.
  love of fun, 185-189, 191.
  manner in society, 194.
  a friend of Freedom, 199.
  lover of Peace, 202-204.
  his aesthetic sense, 204 seq.
  attitude towards Music, 205-206.
  theories of life, 210-216.
  temperance, 212 seq.
  religious views, 216 seq.
  some shortcomings, 219-224.
  summary of his character, 225.
Smith, Sydney, Memoirs of (Lady Holland), 232.
——­ Robert (father), 2.
——­ James (uncle), 2.
——­ Mrs., nee Olier (mother), 2, 12, 212.
——­ Robert (brother), 2, 29.
——­ Cecil (brother), 2.
——­ Courtenay (brother), 2, 9, 176.
——­ Marie (sister), 2.
——­ Mrs., nee Pybus (wife), 22, 30, 33, 80, 86, 87, 131, 134, 135.
——­ Saba (daughter), 23, 81, 150, 161, 214.
——­ Douglas (son), 23, 37, 81, 83, 130, 131.
——­ Emily (daughter), 23, 37, 81, 125, 150.
——­ Wyndham (son), 23, 81.
——­ Adam, 34, 89. 
Smollett, 198. 
Somerset, Duke of, 18. 
Somerville, Lord, 56. 
Spencer, Hon. and Rev. George, 91. 
Stanley, Bishop, 78. 
Stephen, Sir Leslie, 217. 
Stewart, Dugald, 17, 18, 25, 34, 36. 
Stourton, Lord, 117. 
Stowell, Lord, 42. 
Strathaden, Lady, 161. 
Styles, Rev. John, 182, 183. 
Sumner, Archbishop, 79 n., 169. 
Sunday-schools, 15, 16 n., 17. 
Swift, 75, 76, 198.

T

Tait, Archbishop, 179, 180.
Tale of a Tub (Swift), 195. 
Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 173. 
Tankerville, Lord, 87, 88. 
Taste, Lectures on, 31. 
Taxes, 227. 
Temperance, 212-214. 
Terrasson, 90. 
Thomson (poet), 25, 207. 
Thurloe, Lord, 120 n. 
Ticknor, George, 27, 153, 193. 
Tithes, Irish, 70. 
Toleration, Religious, 63, 64, 72, 157.
——­ Sermons on, 41, 42, 128, 154.
Travels in South America (Waterton), 38, 185 seq. 
Troy, Cardinal, 57.

U

Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 54, 57. 
Universities, the, 10, 11, 12, 152. 
Utilitarianism, 210-211.

V

Valpy, Richard, 78. 
Vernon, Miss, 87. 
Victoria, Queen, Sermon on Accession of, 154, 155, 224 n. 
Villages, life in, 14 seq. 
Voltaire, 80, 113.

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