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hvd.hwp5rl	Smith, Sydney	Wit and wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith, being selections from his writings and passages of his letters and table-talk with a biographical memoir and notes by Evert A. Duyckinck and a prefatory memoir of E. A. Duyckinck by R. H. Stoddard 	1880		.txt	text/plain	160721	7915	71	SYDNEY Smith* was born at Woodford, Essex, in the vicinity of London, June 3, 1771, of a respectable family in the middle class of English society. Sydney Smith, who wrote of his brother Robert about this time, as "a capital personage; full of sense, genius, dignity, virtue, and wit," addressed to ever so clear of all frippery, and the only thing for which he probably felt no toleration, was a prig."* Rogers, the poet and fastidious critic of society, pronounced Sir James Mackintosh, Malthus, and Bobus Smith, the three acutest men with whom he was In an article in the Edinburgh Review, Sydney Smith subsequently argued the general question of the allowance of free competition of preachers within the parishes, with an express allusion Sydney Smith, by virtue of his clerical profession, the family connection with Lord Holland, his talents, had a One who passes for a great man in a little place, generally	./cache/hvd.hwp5rl.pdf	./txt/hvd.hwp5rl.txt