 | Baptists - 1850 - 664 pages
...services have been rendered. Its founder has well said, that at its advent " it was always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than <£2,000 or ,£3,000 a year had any opinion at all on important subjects." The Edinburgh Review has... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1839 - 464 pages
...liberality of opinion at that period ; and not only was there no pay, but there were many stripes. It is always considered as a piece of impertinence...be assailed with all the Billingsgate of the French Revolution — Jacobin, Leveller, Atheist, Deist, Socinian, Incendiary, Regicide, were the gentlest... | |
 | Books - 1839 - 658 pages
...liberality of opinion at that period ; and not only was there no pay, but there were many stripes. It is always considered as a piece of impertinence...be assailed with all the Billingsgate of the French Revolution — Jacobin, Leveller, Atheist, Deist, Socinian, Incendiary, Regicide, were the gentlest... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...thus made away with by their wives ; in the higher, by their physicians and cooks. POLITICAL LIBERTY. It is always considered as a piece of impertinence, in England, if a man of less than ¿£2000 or ¿£3,000 a-year has any opinions at all upon important subjects. — Sydney Smith. BIGOTRY... | |
 | The treasury of wit and anecdote - 1842 - 336 pages
...like Malachi's signature, so that upon the whole I should say it's about middling." POLITICAL LIBERTY. IT is always considered as a piece of impertinence, in England, if a man of less than 2,000/. or 3,000/. a-year has any opinions at all upon important subjects. — SYDNEY SMITH. THE BOOK... | |
 | 1843 - 818 pages
...liberality of opinion at that period ; and not only was there no pay, but there were many stripes. It is always considered as a piece of impertinence...be assailed with all the Billingsgate of the French Revolution — Jacobin, Leveller, Atheist, Deist, Socinian, Incendiary, Kegickle, were the gentlest... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 424 pages
...liberality of opinion at that period ; and not only was there no pay, but there were many stripes. It is always considered as a piece of impertinence...be assailed with all the Billingsgate of the French Revolution — Jacobin, Leveller, Atheist, Deist, Socinian, Incendiary, Regicide, were the gentlest... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 356 pages
...As displaying the political and social opinions of Sydney Smith, the following may suffice : — " It is always considered as a piece of impertinence...be assailed with all the Billingsgate of the French Revolution — Jacobin, Leveller, Atheist, Deist, Socinian, Incendiary, Regicide, were the gentlest... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 392 pages
...As displaying the political and social opinions of Sydney Smith, the following may suffice : — " It is always considered as a piece of impertinence...time to be assailed with all the Billingsgate of the tions of social life. Not a murmur against any abuse was permitted ; to say a word against the suitorcide... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 422 pages
...As displaying the political and social opinions of Sydney Smith, the following may suffice : — " It is always considered as a piece of impertinence...important subjects ; and in addition he was sure at that timt to be assailed with all the Billingsgate of the French Revolution— Jacobin, Leveller, Atheist,... | |
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It is always considered as a piece of impertinence in England, if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects... 
