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Twelve Miles From a Lemon - Selected Writings and Sayings of Sydney Smith (Hardcover)
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Twelve Miles From a Lemon - Selected Writings and Sayings of Sydney Smith (Hardcover)
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There are those who say that the Reverend Sydney Smith ought to be
made a saint of the Church of England. There are those who say that
he jested away his chances of a mitre. There are those who simply
read him and laugh. Sydney Smith was not only a humorist. He was a
respected clergyman who worked steadily for Roman Catholic
emancipation despite his own staunch Anglicanism. In 1802 he helped
to found The Edinburgh Review, which became one of the most
powerful journals in Britain. Lord Macaulay referred to him as The
Smith of Smiths. Jane Austen is thought to have based Henry Tilner
in Northanger Abbey on him. G. K. Chesterton was another of his
admirers. This book gathers together a selection of Smith's own
writings together with extracts from his daughter's biography of
him. Arranged thematically, the passages deal with Home and Abroad,
Politics, Social Evils, Education, Religion, and Health and
Happiness. As well as Sydney's renowned wit, the collection
enshrines the wisdom of a man of enormous common sense and the
preaching of an eloquent orator. We discover the sloth, who 'moves
suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and passes his life
in suspense - like a young clergyman distantly related to a
bishop'. We meet the bishop who deserved to be preached to death by
wild curates. But most of all, we enjoy the company of a man
determined that as long as I can possibly avoid it I will never be
unhappy. The amusing defender of our faith described a friend's
idea of heaven as eating pate de foie gras to the sound of
trumpets. His present-day admirers may disagree, finding their
ideal of heaven in reading this wonderfully entertaining book.
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