A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
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INDEX.
Absence of mind, 363, 364.
Abstraction, power of, 115.
Allen, Mr., recommendation of, to Lord Holland, 21.
Amalgams, moral, 215.
America, reported visit to, 303.
Animals, interest in, 118, 174; medicine administered to, 117; scratcher for, 118.
Apologue on Toleration, 218; letter of Mr. Everett relating to, 219.
Apothecary’s shop, 356, 394.
Arms of the Smith family, 243.
Austin’s (Mrs.) account of sermon at St. Paul’s, 307.
Ballot, pamphlet on the, 322.
Banker, dining with a, 395.
Belgium, visit to, 253, 264; interview with the King, 253.
Benevolence, fragment on, 133.
Berkeley Chapel, morning preachership at, 79.
Berry, Miss, Ode by, 84; visit to, 264.
Bible names, 349.
Birth and ancestry, 1, 2.
Bishop, duties of a, 237; marriage of a, 258.
Bishopric, views with regard to a, 233, 235, 236; probability of elevation to, 2-14.
Bishopthorpe, visit to, 177.
Blind, sermon for the, 58.
Blinds, coloured patchwork, 178.
Bobus. See Smith, Robert.
Body, the, a fragment on, 125.
Books, love of, 180, 239.
Bristol, becomes Canon of, 216; sermon at the Cathedral, 216; popularity at, 230;
riots at, 230.
Bunch, 159, 178, 186, 194.
Business habits, 114, 395.
Calamity, horse so named, 174.
Carlisle, Lady, lines by, 329.
Carlisle, Lord, commencement of friendship of, 167; frequent visits of, 168.
Catholic Emancipation, petition for, 201; speech in favour of, 203.
Cheerfulness, remarks on, 131.
Chess, 214.
Children, fondness for, 113, 119, 363; interest in the pursuits of, 114, 280.
Chimneys, smoky, 118.
Cholera, spread of the, 240.
Christianity, evidences of, 63; tolerant spirit of, 54.
Christmas Day at Combe Florey, 398.
Church, state of the, 24.
Classes of society, 381.
Clergyman, poor, living obtained for a, 413.
Club, the, 91.
Cockerell, Mr., letter from, on performance of duties as Canon of St. Paul’s,
249.
Combe Florey, removal to, 225; rebuilds parsonage-house, 228; visit of Lord Jeffrey,
228; library at, 239; visit of Lord John Russell, 240; mode of
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life at, 331; Christmas Day at, 398; sermon at, 399; last return to, 408.
Composition, rapid, habit of, 112.
Court, presentation at, 222.
Courtenay Smith, death of, 280.
Curacy on Salisbury Plain, 10; the squire, 12.
Dandy, thawing a, 181.
Dante, tortures described by, 266.
Davy, Lady, visit of, 154.
Deer, parsonic, 315.
Delinquents, juvenile, 165.
Denman, Lord, 355.
Diary, portions of, 120-125.
Dining out in the country, 147.
Dogs, dislike of, 200, 379.
Donkey, a favourite, 152.
Douglas Smith, birth of, 65; sent to Westminster School, 182; goes to Oxford, 197;
death, 24; letter to Lady Wenlock relating to his death, 225.
Dryden’s house, 265.
Dudley, Lord, anecdotes of, 364, 365.
Ecclesiastical Commission, contest with the, 271.
Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill, petition against, 274.
Economy practised, 204.
Edgeworth, Miss, visit of, to London, 309; letter from, 309; conversation of, 393.
Edinburgh, society at, 13; residence at, 13, 60, 393.
Edinburgh Review, origin of, 22; state of society at the establishment of, 23; moral
courage in contributing to, 24; character of writings in, 30-37; Sydney Smith ceases to
write for, 229; publication of his contributions to, 229.
Edmonton, the living of, 289; address of parishioners, 292; letter to the Bishop of
London relating to, 294.
Education, 31; importance of religious. 55; views on, 319, 335, 359; female, hints
on, 417.
Ellenborough, Lord, anecdote of, 377.
Erasmus, life of, 316.
Everett, Mr., visit of, 407.
Exchange of living, efforts to obtain, 109, 154.
Fallacies, 360.
Farmers, annual dinner to, 116.
Female education, hints on, 417.
Filial affection, instance of, 187.
Fireplaces, importance of, 261.
Fishmongers’ Hall, invitation to dine at, 105.
Flowers, love of, 257.
Foundling Hospital, appointed to the preachership of the, 68; anecdote, 92.
Foston-le-Clay, obtains the living of, 100; induction, 100; conversation at the
Archbishop’s, 100; compelled to reside on living, 107; resolves to build, 108;
commences building, 156; house completed, 101; the household, 163, 104. 180; account of
a visit, by a clergyman, 209; Mr. Loch’s opinion of the parsonage-house, 227;
revisited, 281.
Fox, Miss, 247.
Franklin, admiration of, 353.
Friendship, remarks on, 130.
Fry, Mrs., a visit with, to Newgate, 165.
Game Laws, 33, 165.
Garden chair, 365; lines on receiving, 328.
Gardens for the poor, 119.
Grattan, Mr., death of, 189; character of, 190.
Grenville, Mr., old-age of, 263, 368; letter from, 286.
Grey, Lord, first visit to, 105; fall of his administration, 244; proposed
inscription for monument to, 278.
Handwriting, badness of, 192.
Happiness, recipe for, 295.
Hardness of character. 296.
Harvest, failure of, in 1816, 171.
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Hatherton, Lord, letter to, 216.
Heslington, residence at, 110;
mode of life at, 111; visits of friends, 143.
Hints, historical, 139.
Holland, Lord, friendship of, 78, 95; letter from, relating to Plymley’s
Letters, 104; visits Foston, 172; offers the living of Ampthill, 176; letter to,
relative to a bishopric, 236; death of, 281; portrait of, 282.
Holland House, first visit to, 77; society at, 77.
Holland, Dr., attendance of, in last illness, 403.
Holland, tour in, 253, 254.
Horner, L., first acquaintance with, 17; character of, 18, 169; removal to London,
90; declining health and death, 169; letter of Sydney Smith to his brother, 170.
Humour, instances of want of perception of, 267, 367.
Hunt, trial of, 188.
Immortal, the, 160, 166, 211, 212.
Immortality, evidence of, 52.
Impertinence, official, 193.
Innocence vindicated, 244.
Ireland, condition of, 103; sketch of English misrule in, 141.
Irreligion, abhorrence of, 205.
Italian refugee, marriage of an, 176.
Jeffrey, Lord, visit of, at Heslington, 149, 153; lines on, 153; visit to, at
Edinburgh, 192; letters to, on the principles of the Edinburgh Review, 206; visit to
Combe Florey, 228; Sydney Smith’s regard for, 393; letters from, during last
illness, 405; letters relating to Memoir, 414.
Johnson, Dr., anecdote of, 115.
Journal of a Lady, 315; of a Scotch friend, 392.
Justice, love of, 29, 234.
Justice of the Peace, Sydney Smith becomes a, 164.
Kay, Annie, 163, 180, 355, 409.
Labels, doctors’, 375.
Lectures, extracts from, 39. 40; delivery of, at the Royal Institution, 81; public
interest excited by, 81-83.
Legacy, 191.
Lemons, store of, 357.
Leyden, Mr., 21.
Liberal opinions, advocacy of, 27; penalties attending, 28.
Liberty, views respecting, 26.
License for a chapel, efforts to obtain, 69; correspondence relating to, 69-76.
Life, how usually spent, 318.
Londesborough, obtains the living of, 204.
London, removal to, 65; society in, 66, 77, 88, 257, 259.
Longevity, 316.
Lucan, a copy of, sent to Mr. Grenville, 286.
Luttrell, Mr., visit of, 374.
Lyndhurst, Lord, visit of, 188; promotion by, 216; renewed kindness of, 225.
Macaulay, Mr., letter from, on English misrule in Ireland, 142; opinion of, 363.
Mackintosh, Sir J., anecdote of, 89; return of, from India, 150; visit of, at
Heslington, 150; at Foston, 194; Sydney Smith’s regard for, 195, 241; death of,
241; character, 242; correspondence with, 242; remarks on, 383, 387; imitation of a
speech of, 387.
Manners, on the neglect of, as a part of education, 359.
Marcet, Dr. and Mrs., visit of, 183; incidents related by Mrs. Marcet, 183, 186,
330; letter from, 293.
Marion de Lorme, letter of, 384.
Marriage, 19; office for, 351; definition of, 363.
Maxims and rules of life, 120.
Medicine, study and practice of, 61-63, 117, 246, 355.
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Melancholy, remedy for, 389.
Mind, the, a fragment on, 137.
Missions, opinion of, 376.
Moore, T., visit of, 287; letters from, 287-289; requested to write Memoir, 414.
Moral philosophy, study of, 63; lectures on, 81.
Murray’s (Lord) sketch of Sydney Smith, 326.
Music, remark on, 389.
Netherhaven, curacy of, 10; life at, 11; intimacy with the squire, 12.
New Zealand, advice to a Bishop of, 383.
Newton, Sir Isaac, an ancestor, 3.
Nice person, definition of a, 196.
North Pole, Jeffrey and the, 17.
Occupation, incessant, 111; essay on, 127.
Olier, Miss, character of, 2-4.
Opinions, moderation of, 25, 26.
Paris, visit to, 205.
Parish-clerk at Foston, 107.
Parishioners, advice to, 337.
Parsonage-house at Foston, account of building the, 158; removal to, 161.
Partington, Mrs., 211.
Paul’s, St., becomes Canon of, 241; letter from Mr. Cockerell relating to
Canonry, 248; remarks of the Dean, 252.
Peasantry, significance of words used by the, 344.
Peel, Sir Robert, correspondence with, 312.
Peter the Cruel, 110, 117.
Philips, Sir G., visit to, 166.
Pictures, purchase of, 96; appreciation of, 269, 270.
Plymley’s Letters, appearance of, 102; public interest in, 102; letter from
Lord Holland relating to, 104.
Poor, sympathy with the, 352, 393, 394.
Pope, parody on, 376.
Preaching at St. Paul’s, impres-
sion produced by, 306; at Combe Florey, 399.
Preferment, letters on, 233-236.
Promotion, hopes of, 207; letter on, 208; becomes Canon of Bristol, 215, and of St.
Paul’s, 241.
Pybus, Miss, marriage to, 19.
Quaker, roasting a, 146.
Quakers, heroic conduct of, 172.
Raven, anecdote of a, 317.
Reading, rapid, habit of, 111.
Religious views, 51.
Repudiation, American, 297; Mr. Ticknor’s letter on, 298.
Residence Bill, passing of the, 106.
Riding, unskilful, 172, 177.
Robin, M., article by, in the
“Revue des Deux Mondes,’ 401; correspondence relating to, 402-404.
Rogers, Mr., visits Foston, 172; illness of, 195.
Romilly, Sir S., visit of, at Heslington, 144; sermon on the death of, 144.
Royal Institution, lectures at the, on Moral Philosophy, 81.
Russell, Lord John, letter to, 235; reply of, 236.
Salad, recipe for, 373.
Scotch, regard for the, 14; peculiarities of the, 15, 16.
Scratcher, the universal, 118.
Screaming gate, the, 350.
Sermons, preface to, 41-51; characteristics of, 56-60; effect produced by, 80;
publishes two volumes of, 108; preached at York, 198.
Sevigne, Madame de, 376.
Shaking hands, lesson on, 350.
Sheridan, dining with, 368.
Shooting, objections to, 144.
Shopping, 177.
Shyness, 262, 367.
Siddons, Mrs., 95, 378.
Singing, fondness for, 214.
Sister, death of, 168.
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Sketches, a few unfinished, 125.
Smith, Robert, return of, from India, 149; remarkable conversational powers of, 150;
Indian fame of, 151; visit of, at Heslington, 151; illness, 151; visit to his brother
during last illness, 411; death, 411; character, 412; lines written by, 414.
Smith, Robert, sen., singular character of, 1, 2; visit to, 189.
Smith, Sydney: birth and ancestry, 1, 2; early character, 5; school days at
Winchester, 7; goes to Oxford, 8; residence in France, 8; college life, 9; choice of a
profession, 10; becomes a curate on Salisbury Plain, 10; engaged as tutor by Mr. Beach,
12, 60; arrival at Edinburgh, 13; marriage, 18; his fortune, 19; early housekeeping,
20; generosity, 20, 21; birth of daughter, 22; moral courage, 24; freedom from crude
opinions, 25, 26; illness of daughter, 61; studies medicine, 63; quits Edinburgh, 64;
birth of son, 65; removal to London, 65; cheerfulness, 95, 224; obtains the rectory of
Foston, 100; removes to Sunning, 101; compelled to reside on living, 107; leaves
London, 109; removes to Heslington, 110; visits London, 150; generosity of character,
149, 151, 179; commences building, 156; birth of second son, 160; removal to Foston,
161; the living of Ampthill offered, 176; visits Edinburgh, 182, 192; visit to his
brother in London, 192; improved circumstances, 20-1; visits Paris, 205; hopes of
promotion, 207; marriage of youngest daughter, 215; becomes Canon of Bristol,
215;resigns Foston, and removes to Combe Florey, 225; ceases writing for the Edinburgh
Re-
view, 229; publishes his contributions, 230; marriage of eldest daughter, 243;
christens granddaughter, 246; takes a house in London, 247; revisits Paris, 247;
fragments of conversation, 258-270; return to Combe Florey, 279; unexpected wealth,
280; revisits Foston, 281; mode of life at Combe Florey, 330, 388, 394; habits of
study, 370; last return to London, 401; goes to the sea-side, 408; last illness, 408;
anxiety of friends, 409; visit of his brother Robert, 411.
Somersetshire, climate of, 346.
Squire, a country, 157.
Staël, Madame de, visits England, 150; becomes acquainted with Mr. Robert Smith,
150.
Stewart, Dugald, death of, 269.
Stomach-pump, 357.
Stowell, Lord, 104.
Study, plans of, 113.
Style, beauty of, 335.
Suppers, weekly, 88; the country cousin, 89.
Swing, Letters to, 237.
Talleyrand, anecdote of, 4; acquaintance with, 205; conversation of, 255; opinion of
his wit, 255.
Taunton, speech at county meeting held at, 231; effect produced by, 232.
Taylor, Jeremy, apologue by, on
Toleration, 218.
Thomson, Mrs., letter to, relating to the death of his son, 225.
Ticknor, Mr., letter of, on repudiation, 298.
Toleration, 54; sermon on, in the Temple Church, 93, and in the Cathedral at
Bristol, 216, 217; Taylor’s apologue in illustration of, 218.
Travelling, amusing incidents of, 182.
Turtle, stroking a, 269; riding on a, 399.
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Utilitarians, 334.
Van de Weyer, M., 254; letters to, 305, 323, 324; visit of, 323; letter from,
relating to M. Robin, 401.
Visitation sermon, 177.
Vulgarity, freedom from, 37.
Volunteers, sermon to, 67.
Wainwright, Rev. J. M., of New York, letter from, 303.
Wealth, views of, 399.
Webster, Mr. Daniel, correspondence with, 251.
Wenlock, Lady, letter to, 225.
Whishaw, Mr., letter to, on the death of Horner, 170.
Winchester School, 6.
Writings, character and subjects of his, 30-37.
York, residence near, 109; streets of, 111; the assizes at, 188, 198; sermons
preached at the Cathedral, 179.
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END OF VOLUME I.
JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, PRINTER,
LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS.
