See also:

• SYDNEY

SYDNEY See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SYDNEY SMITH (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

SMITH (1771-1845)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English writer and divine, son of See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

Smith, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• WOODFORD

Woodford, See also:

• ESSEX
• ESSEX, ARTHUR CAPEL
• ESSEX, EARLS OF
• ESSEX, KINGDOM OF
• ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX
• ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX, 2ND2 EARL OF (1566-1601)
• ESSEX, WALTER DEVEREUX, IST2 EARL OF (1541–1576)

Essex, on the 3rd of See also:

• JUNE

June 1771 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of restless ingenuity and activity, " very See also:

• CLEVER

clever, See also:

• ODD (in middle English odde, from old Norwegian oddi, an angle of a triangle; the old Norwegian oddamann is used of the third man who gives a casting vote in a dispute)

odd by nature, but still more odd by See also:

• DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design,'' who bought, altered, spoiled and sold about nineteen different estates in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, had See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent and eccentricity enough to be the father of such a wit as See also:

• SYDNEY

Sydney Smith on the strictest principles of See also:

• HEREDITY

heredity; but Sydney himself attributed not a little of his constitutional gaiety to an infusion of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• BLOOD

blood, his maternal grandfather being a French See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant refugee of the name of Olier . Sydney was the second of a See also:

• FAMILY

family of four See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers and one See also:

• SISTER

sister, all remarkable for their talents . While two of the brothers, Robert See also:

• PERCY (FAMILY)
• PERCY, SIR HENRY
• PERCY, THOMAS (1729-1811)
• PERCY, THOMAS (c. 156o-16os)

Percy, known as " Bobus," after-wards See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general of See also:

• BENGAL
• BENGAL, BAY OF

Bengal, and See also:

• CECIL

Cecil, were sent to See also:

• ETON

Eton, Sydney was sent with the youngest to See also:

• WINCHESTER
• WINCHESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

Winchester, where he See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose to be See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain of the school, and with his See also:

• BROTHER

brother so distinguished himself that their schoolfellows signed a See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round-See also:

• ROBIN

robin " refusing to try for the See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college prizes if the Smiths were allowed to contend for them any more, as they always gained them." At some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time during his See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford career he spent six months in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, being duly enrolled for safety's See also:

• SAKE

sake in the See also:

• LOCAL

local Jacobin See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

club . In 1789 he had become a See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar of New College, Oxford; he received a fellowship after two years' See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence, took his degree in 1792 and proceeded M.A. in 1796 . It was his wish then to readfor the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar, but his father would add nothing to his fellowship, and he was reluctantly compelled to take See also:

• HOLY

holy orders . He was ordained See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest at Oxford in 1996, and became a See also:

• CURATE (from the Lat. curare, to take care of)

curate in the small See also:

• VILLAGE

village of Nether See also:

• AVON

Avon, near See also:

• AMESBURY

Amesbury, in the midst of See also:

• SALISBURY
• SALISBURY, EARLS OF
• SALISBURY, ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNECECIL, 3RD MARQUESS OF (1830-1903)
• SALISBURY, ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1565-1612)
• SALISBURY, THOMAS DE MONTACUTE, 4TH EARL OF (1388-1428)
• SALISBURY, WILLIAM LONGSWORD (or LONGESPEE), EARL OF (d. 1226)

Salisbury See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

Plain . The See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place was uncongenial enough, but Sydney Smith did much for the inhabitants; providing the means for the rudiments of See also:

• EDUCATION

education, and thus, making better things possible . The See also:

• SQUIRE

squire of the See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish, See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

Michael See also:

• HICKS, ELIAS (1748-1830)
• HICKS, HENRY (1837-1899)
• HICKS, WILLIAM (1830-1883)

Hicks-See also:

• BEACH

Beach, invited the new curate to dine, was astonished and charmed to find such a man in such a place, and engaged him after a time as See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor to his eldest son . It was arranged that they should proceed to the university of See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar, but, before reaching their destination See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany was disturbed by See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war, and " in stress of politics " said Smith, " we put into See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh." This was in 1798 .. While his See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil attended lectures, Smith was not idle . He studied moral See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy under Dugald See also:

• STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
• STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
• STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
• STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
• STEWART, J
• STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
• STEWART, JULIUS L
• STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
• STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
• STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
• STEWART, STUART
• STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)

Stewart, and devoted much time to . See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine. and See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry .

He also preached in the Episcopal See also:

• CHAPEL

chapel, where his See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical brilliant discourses attracted many hearers . In 'Soo he published his first See also:

• BOOK

book, Six Sermons, preached in See also:

• CHARLOTTE

Charlotte See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

Street Chapel, Edinburgh, and in the same See also:

• YEAR

year, married, against the wishes of her See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends, Catharine Amelia Pybus . They settled at No . 46 See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George Street, Edinburgh,. where, as everywhere else, Smith made numerous friends, among them the future Edinburgh Reviewers . It was towards the end of his five years' residence in Edinburgh, in the eighth or ninth See also:

• STOREY (equivalents are Fr. etage, Ital. piano, Ger. Stock)

storey or See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat in a See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house in See also:

• BUCCLEUCH, DUKES OF

Buccleuch Place, the elevated residence of the then Mr See also:

• JEFFREY, FRANCIS JEFFREY

Jeffrey, that Sydney Smith proposed the setting up of a See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

review as an See also:

• ORGAN

organ for the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young 'malcontents with things as they were . " I was appointed editor," he says in the See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface to the collection of his contributions, and remained See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long enough in Edinburgh to edit the first number (See also:

• OCTOBER

October 18o2) of the Edinburgh Review . The See also:

• MOTTO (an Italian word, from Late Lat. muttum, a low sound, a mutter or murmur, cf. mutere, to mutter; the Latin word also gives Fr. mot, word)

motto I proposed for the Review was ` Tenui musam meditamur avena.'—` We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.' But this was too near the truth to be admitted, and so we took our See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• GRAVE

grave motto' from Publius Syrus, of. whom, none of us, I am sure, had ever read a single See also:

• LINE

line." He continued to write for the Review for the next See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter of a See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and his brilliant articles were a See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element in its success . He See also:

• LEFT

left Edinburgh for See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good in 1803, when the education of his pupils was completed, and settled in See also:

• LONDON

London, where he rapidly became known as a preacher, a lecturer and a social See also:

• LION
• LION (Lat, leo, leonis; Gr. Mew)

lion . His success as a preacher, although so marked that there was often not See also:

• STANDING

standing-See also:

• ROOM

room in See also:

• BERKELEY
• BERKELEY, GEORGE (1685–1753)
• BERKELEY, MILES JOSEPH (1803-1889)
• BERKELEY, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1608-1677)

Berkeley Chapel, Mayfair, where he was See also:

• MORNING

morning preacher, was not gained by any See also:

• SACRIFICE (from Lat. sacrificium; sacer, holy, and facere, to make)

sacrifice of dignity . He was also" alternate evening preacher " at the Foundling See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

Hospital, and preached at the Berkeley Chapel and the See also:

• FITZROY
• FITZROY, ROBERT (1805-1865)

Fitzroy Chapel, now St Saviour's See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church, Fitzroy Square . He lectured on moral philosophy at the Royal Institution for three seasons, from 1804 to 18o6: and treated his subject with such vigour, freshness and liveliness of See also:

• ILLUSTRATION

illustration that the London See also:

• WORLD

world crowded to See also:

• ALBEMARLE, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Albemarle Street to hear him . He followed in the main Dugald Stewart, whose lectures he had attended in Edinburgh; but there is more originality as well as good sense in his lectures, especially on such topics as See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination and wit and See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour, than in many more pretentious systems of philosophy .

He himself had no high See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of these entertaining performances, and threw them in the See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire when they had served their purpose—providing the See also:

• MONEY

money for furnishing his house . But his wife rescued the charred See also:

• MSS

MSS. and published them in 185o as Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy . With the brilliant reputation that Sydney Smith had acquired in the course of a few seasons in London, he would probably have obtained some good preferment had he been on the powerful See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side in politics . Sydney Smith's See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder brother " Bobus " had married See also:

• CAROLINE
• CAROLINE (1683-1737)

Caroline See also:

• VERNON
• VERNON, EDWARD (1684-1757)

Vernon, aunt of the 3rd See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland, and he was always a welcome visitor at Holland House . His Whig friends came into See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office for a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short time in 1806, and presented him with the living of Foston-le-See also:

• CLAY (from O. Eng. claeg, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Klei)
• CLAY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS (1810-1903)
• CLAY, CHARLES (1801–1893)
• CLAY, FREDERIC (1838–1889)
• CLAY, HENRY (1777–1852)

Clay in See also:

• YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire . He shrank from this banishment for a time, and discharged his parish duties through a curate; but See also:

• SPENCER
• SPENCER, HERBERT (1820-1903)
• SPENCER, JOHN CHARLES SPENCER, 3RD EARL (1782-1845)
• SPENCER, JOHNPOYNTZ SPENCER
• SPENCER, WILLIAM ROBERT (1769-1834)

Spencer See also:

• PERCEVAL, or PERCYVELLE (Ger. Parzival, Fr. Perlesvaus, Welsh, Peredur)
• PERCEVAL, SPENCER (1762-1812)

Perceval's Residence See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act was 'Judea damnatur cum nocens absolvitur . passed in 1So8, and after trying in vain to negotiate an See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange, had just thrown out the Reform See also:

• BILL

Bill, with Mrs Partington of he quitted London in r8o9, and moved his See also:

• HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household to See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York- See also:

• SHIRE

shire . The See also:

• MINISTRY

Ministry of " All the Talents " was driven out of office in 1807 in favour of a " no popery " party, and in that year appeared the first See also:

• INSTALMENT (for earlier stallment or estallment, from Fr. estaler, to fix, arrange; the change is probably due to the influence of the verb " install ")

instalment of Sydney Smith's most famous See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production, See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter Plymley's Letters, on the subject of See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic emancipation, ridiculing the opposition of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy . It was published as A See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

Letter on the Subject of the Catholics to my brother See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

Abraham who lives in the Country, by Peter Plymley . Nine other letters followed before the end of ,8o8, when they appeared in collected See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form . Peter Plymley's identity was a See also:

• SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret, but rumours got abroad of the real authorship . Lord Holland wrote to him expressing his own See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion and See also:

• GRENVILLE (or GRANVILLE), SIR RICHARD (r600-1658)
• GRENVILLE (or GREYNVILE), SIR RICHARD (c. 1541-1591)
• GRENVILLE, GEORGE (1712-1770)
• GRENVILLE, SIR BEVIL (1596-1643)
• GRENVILLE, WILLIAM WYNDHAM GRENVILLE, BARON (1759-1834)

Grenville's, that there had been nothing like it since the days of See also:

• SWIFT
• SWIFT, JONATHAN (1667—1745)

Swift (Memoir, i .

151) . He also pointed out that Swift had lost a bishopric for his wittiest performance . The See also:

• SPECIAL

special and temporary nature of the topics advanced in these See also:

• PAMPHLETS

pamphlets has not prevented them from taking a permanent place in literature, secured for them by the vigorous, picturesque See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, the generous eloquence and clearness of exposition which Sydney Smith could always command . In his country parish of Foston, with no educated See also:

• NEIGHBOUR (O. Eng. neahgebiir, from Walt, " nigh," " near ")

neighbour within 7 m., Sydney Smith accommodated himself cheerfully to his new circumstances, and won the See also:

• HEARTS

hearts of his parishioners as quickly as he had conquered a wider world . There had been no See also:

• RESIDENT

resident clergyman in his parish for 150 years; he had a See also:

• FARM

farm of 300 acres to keep in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order; a rectory had to be built . All these things were attended to beside his contributions to the Edinburgh Review . " If the chances of See also:

• LIFE

life ever enable me to emerge," he nevertheless writes to See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady Holland, " I will show you I have not been wholly occupied by small and sordid pursuits." He continued to serve the cause of See also:

• TOLERATION (from Lat. tolerare, to endure)

toleration by ardent speeches in favour of Catholic emancipation; his eloquence being specially directed against those who maintained that a See also:

• ROMAN

Roman Catholic could not be believed on his See also:

• OATH (0. Eng. ddh)

oath . " I defy Dr See also:

• DUIGENAN, PATRICK (1735-1816)

Duigenan,"' he pleaded, addressing a See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting of clergy in 1823, " in the full vigour of his incapacity, in the strongest See also:

• ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access of that Protestant See also:

• EPILEPSY (Gr. &L, upon, and kaµ)3avew, to seize), or FALLING

epilepsy with which he was so often convulsed, to have added a single See also:

• SECURITY (Lat. securus, free from care, safe)

security to the security of that oath." At this time appeared one of his most vigorous and effective polemics, A Letter to the See also:

• ELECTORS (Ger. Kurfursten, from Kilren, O.H.G. kiosan, choose, elect, and Furst, prince)

Electors upon the Catholic Question (1826) . Sydney Smith, after. twenty years' service in Yorkshire, obtained preferment at last from a Tory See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister, Lord See also:

• LYNDHURST, JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, BARON (1772–1863)

Lyndhurst, who presented him with a prebend in See also:

• BRISTOL
• BRISTOL, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• BRISTOL, GEORGE DIGBY, 2ND EARL OF1 (1612-1677)
• BRISTOL, JOHN DIGBY, 1ST EARL OF 6 (1580-1653)

Bristol See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral in 1828, and afterwards enabled him to exchange Foston for the living of See also:

• COMBE, ANDREW (1797-1847)
• COMBE, GEORGE (1788-1858)
• COMBE, or COOMB
• COMBE, WILLIAM (1741–1823)

Combe Florey, near See also:

• TAUNTON
• TAUNTON, HENRY LABOUCHERE, BARON (1798–1869)

Taunton, which he held conjointly with the living of Halberton attached to his prebend . From this time he discontinued See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing for the Edinburgh Review on the ground that it was more becoming in a dignitary of the church to put his name to what he wrote . It was expected that when the Whigs came into See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power Sydney Smith would be made a See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop . There was nothing in his writings, as in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of Swift, to stand in the way .

He had been most sedulous as a parochial clergyman . Doctoring his parishioners, he said, was his only rural amusement . His See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion was wholly of a practical nature, and his See also:

• FELLOW

fellow-clergy had reasons for their suspicion of his very limited See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology, which excluded See also:

• MYSTICISM (from Or. µuety, to shut the eyes; µuorrts, one initiated into the mysteries)

mysticism of any sort . " The See also:

• GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

Gospel," he said, " has no See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm." His scorn for enthusiasts and dread of religious emotion found vent in See also:

• MIDDLE

middle life in his strictures on missionary enterprise, and See also:

• BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter attacks on Method-ism, and later in many scoffs at the followers of See also:

• PUSEY, EDWARD BOUVERIE (1800-1882)

Pusey . Still, though he was not without warm friends at headquarters, the opposition was too strong for them . One of the first things that Lord See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

Grey said on entering See also:

• DOWNING, SIR GEORGE

Downing Street was, " Now I shall be able to do something for Sydney Smith "; but he was not able to do more than appoint him in 1831 to a residentiary canonry at St See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul's in exchange for the prebendal See also:

• STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors

stall he held at Bristol . He was as eager a See also:

• CHAMPION (Fr. champion, Late Lat. campio from campus; a field or open space, i.e. one " who takes the field " or fights; cf. Ger. Kampf, battle, and Kampfer, fighter)

champion of See also:

• PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary reform as he had been of Catholic emancipation, and one of his best fighting speeches was delivered at Taunton in October 1831 when he made nis well-known comparison of the House of Lords, who s See also:

• PATRICK, SIMON (1626–1707)
• PATRICK, ST

Patrick Duigenan, M.P. for the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

• ARMAGH

Armagh, a Protestant agitator . See also:

• SIDMOUTH
• SIDMOUTH, HENRY ADDINGTON, 1ST VISCOUNT (1757–1844)

Sidmouth, setting out with See also:

• MOP

mop and pattens to See also:

• STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem the See also:

• ATLANTIC

Atlantic in a See also:

• STORM (in O. Eng..storm, and so in Du. and Low Ger.; in O. H. Ger. and mod. Ger. Sturm; the root is probably that seen in " stir," to rouse, move, disturb, cf. Ger. storen)
• STORM, THEODOR WOLDSEN (1817-1888)

storm . Some surprise must be See also:

• FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt now that Sydney Smith's reputation as a humorist and wit should have caused any hesitation about elevating him to an episcopal dignity, and perhaps he was right in thinking that the real obstacle See also:

• LAY

lay in his being known as " a high-spirited, honest, uncompromising man, whom all the See also:

• BENCH (an O.E. and Eng. form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Bank, Dan. baenk and the Eng. doublet " bank ")

bench of bishops could not turn upon vital questions." With characteristic philosophy, when he saw that the promotion was doubtful, he made his position certain by resolving not to be a bishop and definitely forbidding his friends to intercede for him . On the See also:

• DEATH

death of his brother See also:

• COURTENAY
• COURTENAY, RICHARD (d. 1415)
• COURTENAY, WILLIAM (c. 1342—1396)

Courtenay he inherited 50,000, which put him out of the reach of poverty . His eldest daughter, Saba (1802-1866), married See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry Holland . • His eldest son, See also:

• DOUGLAS
• DOUGLAS, GAVIN (1474?-1522)
• DOUGLAS, JOHN (1721—1807.)
• DOUGLAS, SIR CHARLES
• DOUGLAS, SIR HOWARD
• DOUGLAS, STEPHEN ARNOLD (18,3–1861)

Douglas, died in 1829 at the outset of what had promised to be a brilliant career .

This grief his father never forgot, but nothing could quite destroy the cheerfulness of his later life . He retained his high See also:

• SPIRITS

spirits, his wit, practical See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy and See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of argumentative ridicule to the last . His Three Letters to See also:

• ARCHDEACON (Lat. archidiaconus, Gr. &oxt3tauovor)

Archdeacon Singleton on the Ecclesiastical See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

Commission (1837–38–39) and his See also:

• PETITION (Lat. for " seeking " or " praying ")

Petition and Letters on the repudiation of debts by the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania (1843), are as See also:

• BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
• BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

bright and trenchant as his best contributions to the Edinburgh Review . He died at his house in See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

Green Street, London, on the 22nd of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1845 and was buried at Kensal Green . Sydney Smith's other publications include: Sermons (2 vols., 18o9); The See also:

• BALLOT (from Ital. ballotta, dim. of balla, a ball)

Ballot (1839); See also:

• WORKS

Works (3 vols., 1839), including the Peter Plymley and the Singleton Letters and many articles from the Edinburgh Review; A Fragment on the Irish Roman Catholic Church (1845) Sermons at St Paul's . . . (1846) and some other pamphlets and sermons . Lady Holland says (Memoir, i . 19o) that her father left an unpublished MS., compiled from documentary See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence, to exhibit the See also:

• HISTORY

history of English See also:

• MISRULE, LORD OF

misrule in See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland, but had hesitated to publish it . This was suppressed by his widow in deference to the opinion of Lord See also:

• MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, BARON (1800-1859)

Macaulay . See A Memoir of the See also:

• REVEREND (Lat. reverendus, gerundive of revereri, to revere, pay respect to)

Reverend Sydney Smith by his daughter, Lady Holland, with a Selection from his Letters edited by Mrs [Sarah] See also:

• AUSTIN
• AUSTIN, ALFRED
• AUSTIN, JOHN (179o-1859)
• AUSTIN, SARAH (1793-1867)
• AUSTIN, STEPHEN FULLER (1793-1836)

Austin (2 vols., 1855) ; also A See also:

• SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

Sketch of the Life and Times of . . Sydney Smith (1884) by See also:

• STUART, ARABELLA (1575-1615)
• STUART, GILBERT (1755-x828)
• STUART, JAMES EWELL BROWN (1833-1864)
• STUART, JOHN
• STUART, MOSES (1780-1852)
• STUART, SIR JOHN, COUNT

Stuart J .

See also:

• REID, ROBERT (1862– )
• REID, SIR GEORGE (1841- )
• REID, SIR ROBERT GILLESPIE (184o-19o8)
• REID, SIR WILLIAM (1791-1858)
• REID, THOMAS (1710-1796)
• REID, THOMAS MAYNE (1818-1883)
• REID, WHITELAW (1837- )

Reid; a See also:

• CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter on " Sydney Smith " in Lord See also:

• HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, 1ST BARON (1809—1885)

Houghton's Monographs Social and See also:

• PERSONAL

Personal (1873) ; A . Chevrillon, Sydney Smith et la See also:

• RENAISSANCE, THE

renaissance See also:

• DES

des idles liberates en Angleterre an XIXB siecle (1894); and especially the monograph, -with a full description of his writings, by G . W . E . See also:

• RUSSELL (FAMILY)
• RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
• RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
• RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
• RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
• RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
• RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
• RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
• RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
• RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )

Russell in Sydney Smith (English Men of Letters See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, 1905) . There are numerous references to Smith in contemporary See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence and See also:

• JOURNALS

journals .