Sydney Smith: et la renaissance des idées libérales en Angleterre au XIX siécleHachette et cie, 1894 - 418 strán (strany) |
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Abraham Adam Bede anglais Angleterre anglicane Archdeacon Singleton aristocratique believe Birmingham bonheur Burke calme campagnards campagne Carlyle Catholic catholiques cent cervelle Chambre des lords choses Church classes clergyman Cockburn cœur Combe Florey common country Dieu dissidents Dugald Stewart Édimbourg Église enfants English esprit évêques Felix Holt fermiers Foston foule gentlemen George Eliot geste good gouvernement great Grey homme House idées instincts institutions Irlande j'ai jacobin Jeffrey John Bull jour know l'Angleterre l'Église l'esprit l'homme l'Irlande letter to Archdeacon Londres lord Grey Macaulay made make manoir ment mille misère monde morale nation nobles parle paroisse passé pauvres pense people Peter Plymley petits peuple philosophie politique prêche préjugés prêtres public raison recteur réforme électorale religieux religion Révolution française Revue d'Édimbourg rien sent sermons seul Singleton sociale société squire Sydney Smith Taunton terre time tion tory vieille vieux village visible Voilà voix whig XIXe siècle XVIIIe siècle years
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Strana 39 - ... is enough of her to furnish wives for a whole parish. One man marry her ! it is monstrous. You might people a colony with her ; or give an assembly with her ; or perhaps take your morning's walk round her, always provided there were frequent resting-places, and you were in rude health. I once was rash enough to try walking round her before breakfast, but only got half-way and gave it up exhausted. Or you might read the Riot Act and disperse her ; in short, you might do anything with her but marry...
Strana 291 - As for the spirit of the peasantry, in making a gallant defence behind hedgerows, and through plate-racks and hencoops, highly as I think of their bravery, I do not know any nation in Europe so likely to be struck with panic as the English ; and this from their total unacquaintance with the science of war.
Strana 157 - Sir; I deny the charge. I hate innovation, but I love improvement. I am an enemy to the corruption of government, but I defend its influence. I dread reform, but I dread it only when it is intemperate. I consider the liberty of...
Strana 278 - I do not believe), they exist only in the mind of the chancellor of the exchequer; they emanate from his zeal for the Protestant interest; and, though they reflect the highest honour upon the delicate irritability of his faith, must certainly be considered as more ambiguous proofs of the sanity and vigour of his understanding. By this time, however, the...
Strana 37 - I always prophesied his greatness from the first moment I saw him, then a very young and unknown man, on the Northern Circuit. There are no limits to his knowledge, on small subjects as well as great ; he is like a book in breeches.
Strana 282 - ... to look on while the rest were stuffing themselves with beef and beer : the next year, the inhabitants of the persecuted street (though they contributed an equal quota of the expense) were treated precisely in the same manner. The tyranny grew into a custom ; and (as the manner of our nature is) it was considered as the most sacred of all duties to keep these poor fellows without their annual dinner : the village was so tenacious of this practice, that nothing could induce them to resign it ;...
Strana 39 - he exclaimed, bursting out laughing ; 'going to marry her ! impossible'! you mean, a part of her: he could not marry her all himself. It would be a case, not of bigamy, but trigamy ; the neighbourhood or the magistrates should interfere. There is enough of her to furnish wives for a whole parish. One man marry her ! — it is monstrous. You might people a colony with her ; or give an assembly with her; or perhaps take your morning's walk round her, always provided there were frequent restingplaces,...
Strana 282 - Hawkesbury would call the wisdom of the village ancestors), the inhabitants of three of the streets, about a hundred years ago, seized upon the inhabitants of the fourth street, bound them hand and foot, laid them upon their backs, and compelled them to look on while the rest were stuffing themselves with beef and beer; the next year the inhabitants of the persecuted street (though they contributed an equal quota of the expense) were treated precisely in the same manner. The tyranny grew into a custom;...
Strana 156 - ... guarantee against any ground of alarm. Give not, then, your sanction to this measure; for, whatever be its character, if you do give your sanction to it, the same man by whom this is proposed, will propose to you others to which it will be impossible to give your consent. I care very little, Sir, for the ostensible measure; but what is there behind? What are the honourable gentleman's future schemes?
Strana 282 - ... water ; till, at last, after a long series of concessions, they are emboldened to ask, in pretty plain terms, that they may be allowed to sit down at the bottom of the table, and to fill their bellies as well as the rest. Forthwith a general cry of shame and scandal : 'Ten years ago, were you not laid upon your backs ? Don't you remember what a great thing you thought it to get a piece of bread ? How thankful you were for...