Part 17 (1/2)

[130] ”You see er brother, Courtenay, is turned out of office in India, for refusing the surety of the East India Coeneration, and yet they have all got rich but I Courtenay, they say, has 150,000, and he keeps only a cat! In the last letter I had froathering very fast” (SS 1827)

[131] (1794-1871), Banker, Historian, and Politician

[132] William, Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848)

[133] ”Have you read Sydney Se mixture in his character of earnest coht hly of in consequence of the publication of the Life, though it ion was not injured by his strong sense of the ludicrous I cannot forgive hih Review_”--_Life of Archbishop Tait_, vol I chapter xiii

What seeiven, without date, by Lady Holland ”So of Missions, ridiculed theh all was not done that was projected, or even boasted of, yet that ht, it brought with it the additional good of civilization in its train, and men beca”

[134] ”It is iay, and Mr Ringletub at Ipswich; or whether an artful vicissitude is adopted, and the order of insane predication reversed”

[135] William Carey (1761-1834), Shoemaker, Orientalist, and Missionary

[136] (1765-1832), Historian and Philosopher

[137] Charles Waterton (1782-1865), Naturalist

[138] (1748-1820)

[139] It is possible that the argument about the Wisdoested by the following extract from the Parliamentary Debates for May 26, 1797 On Mr Grey's Motion for a Refore-Turner, MP, spoke as follows--”He craved the indulgence of the House for a few observations which he had toand when he lay down at night, he always felt for the Constitution On this question he had never had but one opinion When he came first into Parliament, he remembered that the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed a Refor, and he opposed it Would it not be e what had been handed, sound and entire, down from the days of their fathers?”

[140] (1809-1878)

[141] In these a special appeal is made to ”our youthful Gladstone,” then recently appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade

[142] Afterwards Mrs Malcolm: died in 1886

[143] He said afterwards that this Ser's

[144] Coh, quoted by Lady Holland:--”All adieus are melancholy; and principally, I believe, because they put us in mind of the last of all adieus, when the apothecary, and the heir-apparent, and the nurse eeps for pay, surround the bed; when the curate, engaged to dine three miles off, mumbles hasty prayers; when the diallipots, phials, and jugs of barley-water”

CHAPTER VII

CHARACTERISTICS--HUMOUR--POLITICS--CULTURE--THEORIES OF LIFE--RELIGION

What Sydney Smith was to the outward eye we know frorand-daughter, Miss Caroline Holland He had a long and slightly aquiline nose, of the type which gives a peculiar trenchancy to the countenance; a strongly developed chin, thick white hair,[146] and black eyebrows His coure he was, to use his own phrase, ”of the family of Falstaff” Ticknor described hiross” Macaulay spoke of his ”rector-like aht, rather above it than below, and sturdily built He used to quote a saying from one of his contemporaries at Oxford--”Sydney, your sense, wit, and cluive me the idea of an _Athenian carter_” Except on cerehter says:--”His neckcloth always looked like a pudding tied round his throat, and the arrangearn”

His manner in society was cordial, unrestrained, and even boisterous ”I live,” he said in an adure, ”with open doors and s” His poor parishi+oners regarded hirin”[147] His daughter says that, ”on entering the pulpit, the calnity of his eye, mien, and voice, made one feel that he was indeed, and felt hi between our God and His people,'

to teach His laws, to declare His judgh has been quoted froive the reader a clear notion of his style In early life it was not scrupulously correct,[148] and to the end it was marked here and there by an archaism such as ”I have strove,” and ”they are rode over” It was singularly uninvolved and uncohest degree As years went on, it gained both in ease and in accuracy, but never lost either its force or its resonance It ran up and down the whole gaue, froenerally used to heighten a colo-Saxon His punctuation was careless, and the impression produced by his written composition is that of a man rote exactly as he spoke, without pause, premeditation, or amend, and never laid down the pen till that subject lived and breathed in the written page[149] Here and there, indeed, it is easy to note an unusual care and elaboration in the structure of the sentences and the cadence of the sound, and then the style rises to a very high level of rhetorical dignity

Enough too has been quoted, both fros and from his conversation, to illustrate the quality and quantity of his humour It bubbled up in him by a spontaneous process, and flowed over into whatever he wrote or said Macaulay described his ”rapid, loud, laughing utterance,”