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  Sydney Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sydney Smith (June 3, 1771 – February 22, 1845), was an English writer and clergyman.
Sydney was the second of four brothers and one sister, all remarkable for their talents.
Sydney Smith's elder brother "Bobus" had married Caroline Vernon, aunt of the 3rd Lord Holland, and he was always a welcome visitor at Holland House.
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 Sydney Smith - LoveToKnow 1911
SYDNEY SMITH (1771-1845), English writer and divine, son of Robert Smith, was born at Woodford, Essex, on the 3rd of June 1771.
Sydney was the second of a family of four brothers and one sister, all remarkable for their talents.
Sydney Smith's other publications include: Sermons (2 vols., 1809); The Ballot (1839); 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.
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 Sydney Smith (cricketer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sydney George Smith, born at San Fernando, Trinidad on January 15, 1881, and died at Auckland, New Zealand, on October 25, 1963, was a cricketer who had three distinct careers, playing for Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies, for Northamptonshire in England and for Auckland in New Zealand.
Smith was a forceful left-handed middle-order batsman and a left-arm spin bowler.
The side was weak, but Smith acquitted himself well, scoring 571 runs, including a century against Hampshire and taking 66 wickets.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_Smith_(cricketer)   (424 words)

  
 Guide to the Sydney Smith papers, 1809-1843
Sydney Smith was born on June 3, 1771 at Woodford, Essex.
Smith’s eldest son, Douglas, was to die at the age of twenty-four; his daughter, Saba, became the second wife of Henry Holland (1788-1873), physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria.
Smith moved to a parish in Somerset (1829) and was later given a canonry at St. Paul's, London in 1831.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/ricewrc/00247/rice-00247.html   (1308 words)

  
 University of Delaware: SYDNEY GOODSIR SMITH PAPERS
Sydney Goodsir Smith was one of the most important authors of the twentieth-century Scottish Literary Renaissance.
As a vital member of Edinburgh’s literary circle, Smith was known for his emotional love poetry and nationalistic concern for the cultural and political affairs of Scotland.
Smith, however, was neither raised nor educated in Scotland.
www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/smith_sg.htm   (1874 words)

  
 Smith, Sydney. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Moving to London in 1803, Smith lectured on moral philosophy at the Royal Institution and became a well-known figure in literary society.
He went to a parish in Somerset in 1829; in 1831 he was given a residentiary canonry at St. Paul’s.
Smith’s religion was strong and of a practical nature.
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 Sydney Smith: Critic of Indian Missions
Smith (1771-1845), a clergyman of the Church of England, was suited to the formation of polite opinion.
Smith, who wrote during the Napoleonic Wars in the aftermath of the Vellore Mutiny of 1806, appealed to Britons' concerns regarding the menace of French power and the precarious loyalty of Indians.
Smith's references to Baptist missionaries as "Anabaptists," however, reveal that something more than a playful irony was at work here: Smith had invoked the rhetoric of the Protestant Reformation, delivered a stinging social slur, and underscored his own anxiety to distance himself from radicalism.
www.wmcarey.edu /carey/smyth/sydney_smith.htm   (321 words)

  
 Sydney Smith
English writer and divine, son of Robert Smith, was born at Woodford, Essex, on the 3rd of June 1771.
Jeffrey, that Sydney Smith proposed the setting up of a review as an organ for the young malcontents with things as they were.
In his country parish of Foston, with no educated neighbor within 7 miles, Sydney Smith accommodated himself cheerfully to his new circumstances, and won the hearts of his parishioners as quickly as he had conquered a wider world.
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 Overview of Sydney Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Born in England and educated at Winchester and Oxford, Smith was ordained as a priest in the Church of England in 1794.
Smith continued to write for the Review regularly during the following 25 years, contributing greatly to its success and helping make it one of the most influential arbiters of taste in Europe at the time.
Smith moved to London in 1803, where he lectured on moral philosophy and became well-known in literary society.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst1297.html   (267 words)

  
 NPG 4917; Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith (1771-1845), Wit; Canon of St Paul's.
Praised for his wit and exuberance by London society, in intellectual circles Smith was known for his secular view of the religious establishment and support for Catholic emancipation.
Smith is accompanied by symbols of good and evil, or, perhaps more likely for this impious wit, Church and State: a corpulent friar with tonsure and pink head, and a winged devil accented with a blotch of fiery red watercolour.
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 Smith Sydney - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Smith, Sydney (1771-1845), English writer and Anglican clergyman, born in Essex.
In 1798 Smith went to Edinburgh, where he helped to found the...
Smith, Sydney, Letter to Lord Holland (quotations): Switzerland: I look upon Switzerland as…
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 Modern History Sourcebook: Sydney Smith (1771-1845): Fallacies Of Anti-Reformers, 1824
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) was an English clergyman noted as the wittiest man of his time.
He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, and in 1798 went to Edinburgh as tutor to the son of an English gentleman.
He was a stanch Whig, and in such issues as that of Catholic Emancipation he fought for liberal opinions at the cost of injury to his personal prospects.
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 SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845) - Online Information article about SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
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:
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:
Reverend Sydney Smith by his daughter, Lady Holland, with a Selection from his Letters edited by Mrs [Sarah] See also:
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 The Old Cause by Joseph Stromberg
ydney Smith (1771- 1845) was an Anglican minister chiefly remembered, not for his contributions to ecclesiastical management or theology, much less orthodoxy, but for his humorous commentary on the folly he saw around him.
At a time when ecclesiastical preferment depended on never offending anyone important and not expressing views likely to be controversial, Sydney Smith spoke his mind, delighting many and alarming others, and thereby assured that he would never be a bishop in the Church of England.
Smith was a great critic of the cruel punishments still employed in England.
www.antiwar.com /stromberg/s090799.html   (1053 words)

  
 Syd Smith Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Syd Smith was born on Friday, August 31, 1883, in Smithville, South Carolina.
Smith was 24 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 14, 1908, with the Philadelphia Athletics.
His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Syd Smith baseball stats page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=smithsy01   (287 words)

  
 Edward Sydney Smith - Classical music composer
The local newspaper of the period records the many concerts given by the Smith family whilst the boys were still young and Sydney usually played the 'cello and Boyton played the piano.
On the whole, Smith confined his piano writing so that it would be accessible to talented amateur players, but this was not always the case, some of the pieces are very demanding indeed.
The Sydney Smith Archive in London is the home of all the sheet music, in addition to several thousand pieces by other lost Victorian composers.
www.classical-composers.org /comp/smith_sydney   (663 words)

  
 About Sydney Smith
Sydney was the second of four brothers and one sister
1807 Smith published the first instalment of his most famous work, Peter Plymley`s Letters, on the subject of Catholic emancipation, ridiculing the opposition of the country clergy.
1850 When Smith was done with his lectures from the Royal Institute, he threw them in the fire.
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 AllRefer.com - Sydney Smith (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Sydney Smith (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Sydney Smith 1771–1845, English clergyman, writer, and wit, ordained in the Church of England in 1794.
In 1798 he went as a tutor to Edinburgh, where he studied medicine, occasionally preached, and with Jeffrey and others founded (1802) the Edinburgh Review.
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 Sydney Smith. 1771-1845. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs.
Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
Smith, with reference to the “Edinburgh Review,”; says: “The motto I proposed for the ‘Review’ was ‘Tenui musam meditamur avena;’ but this was too near the truth to be admitted; so we took our present grave motto from Publius Syrus, of whom none of us had, I am sure, read a single line.” [back]
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 Sydney Smith, by George W. E. Russell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sydney, however, was not silent about Winchester. ; In one of the liveliest passages of his controversial writings, he said:—­
Smith sold her pearl necklace for £500, and bought plate and linen with the proceeds.  Michael Beach had now quitted Edinburgh for Oxford, but his younger brother William took his place in the Smiths’ house, and was joined by the eldest son of Mr.
Smith had rescued the manuscripts, a good deal damaged, from the flames, and after her husband’s death she published the three courses in one volume under the title, Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy.
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 Sydney Smith
Sydney: AAPT signs an agreement with one of Australia's largest retailers, Dick Smith Electronics Group.(News map: around the wireless......
Heading for Hobart: the complete who's who in the Sydney to Hobart Race 2001.
THE SYDNEY OLYMPICS: A CUCKOO IN THE NEST?
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 Sydney Bright Smith 1860
Sydney was born on 12 December 1860, the son of George Augustus Bright Smith and Lydia Adelina Ellen Williams, at Crambe, Yorkshire.
Commissioned as a 2nd Lt in the Royal Welch Fusiliers on Aug. 11, 1880, he was promoted to 1st Lt on July 1, 1881.
BRIGHT-SMITH - On Aug. 6, 1938, SYDNEY BRIGHT-SMITH, late Captain, Royal Welch Fusiliers, son of the late Rev. G.
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 Travel Channel :: Fodor's Guides :: Sydney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Flying times are as follows: from New York to Sydney (via Los Angeles), about 21 hours; from Chicago to Sydney (via Los Angeles), about 19 hours; from Los Angeles to Sydney (nonstop), about 14 hours; and from London to Sydney, about 20½ hours via Singapore or Bangkok.
On the downside, access to the platform is difficult for travelers with anything more than light luggage, trains do not have adequate stowage facilities, and for two traveling together, a taxi is more convenient and costs only slightly more.
The main roads to and from other state capitals are: the 982-km (609-mi) Pacific Highway (Highway 1) north to Brisbane; the 335-km (208-mi) Hume Highway (Highway 31) southwest to Canberra, or 874 km (542 mi) to Melbourne; and the 1,038-km (644-mi) Princes Highway (Highway 1) to the NSW south coast and Melbourne.
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 Sydney Smith by George W. E. Russell - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/5)
Sydney Smith was born on the 3rd of June; and was baptized on the 1st of
Sydney Smith "was fond of children and young people, and took pains to
In 1802 the Smiths' eldest child was born and was christened Saba.
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 Sydney Goodsir Smith
Sydney Goodsir Smith was a significant figure in the twentieth-century revival of poetry in Scots.
Sydney Goodsir Smith spent his first years in New Zealand, then in 1928 moved with his family to Edinburgh.
From the outset he chose Scots as the language for his poetry.
www.nls.uk /writestuff/heads/wee-smith.html   (226 words)

  
 Sydney Smith -- Catcher from South Carolina
>> Visit the Sydney Smith biography on Baseball Almanac for complete statistics.
Syd Smith, born in Smithville, South Carolina, spend parts of six seasons in major league baseball serving primarily as a backup catcher.
He appeared in 146 games in his career, hitting.247 with 2 home runs and 40 runs batted in.
www.historicbaseball.com /players/s/smith_sydney.html   (69 words)

  
 Sydney Smith - Wikiquote
Review of Seybert’s Annals of the United States, published in The Edinburgh Review (1820)
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Wikisource has original works written by or about Sydney Smith.
en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Sydney_Smith   (963 words)

  
 Internet Broadway Database: Sydney Smith Credits on Broadway
Internet Broadway Database: Sydney Smith Credits on Broadway
Performer: Sydney Smith [Junius Brutus Booth, the younger];
Performer: Sydney G. Smith [Sir Pierce of Exton]
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