...exceeded everybody's expectations. " From six to eight hundred hearers," says the gentleman just quoted, " not a seat to be procured, even if you go there an...manly sense, liberal opinions, and striking language?" Sydney's own account of these lectures is thus given in a letter to Dr. Whewell, in 1843 : — " My...

...could have executed such an undertaking with the least chance of this sort of success ; for who else could make such a mixture of odd paradox, quaint fun, manly sense, liberal opinion, striking language?' The following extracts from letters to his old friend Lord Webb Seymour...

...seemed to shine in the eyes of her friends, after this notice of its beauty in his lecture. Mr. Homer, in his Life, speaks of these Lectures, calling my...public, which has confirmed this opinion of his friend Homer. Lord Jeffrey, to whom they were submitted in manuscript, had at first dissuaded their publication...

...conjecture, that a seat was not to be procured even an hour before the time, and that " nobody else could have executed such an undertaking with the least...manly sense, liberal opinions, and striking language?" Sir Robert Peel (we can no more speak of the late Sir R. Peel than of the late Napoleon Buonaparte,)...

...conjecture, that a seat was not to be procured even an hour before the time, and that " nobody else could have executed such an undertaking with the least...manly sense, liberal opinions, and striking language?" Sir Robert Peel (we can no more speak of the late Sir R. Peel than of the late Napoleon Buonaparte,)...

...success to his delivery, and to the qualities indicated by Horner, when he wrote of these lectures, " who could make such a mixture of odd paradox, quaint...manly sense, liberal opinions, and striking language?" Indeed the reason why the lectures succeeded is well shown in the tenth of the series, and it proves...

..." Not a seat to be procured," says Horner, " even if you go an hour before the time. Who but Sydney could make such a mixture of odd paradox, quaint fun,...manly sense, liberal opinions, and striking language?" The volume which contains these lectures justifies the encomium. But though they were more successful...

...united in himself powers not often combined. " Who," said Homer, in admiration of these lectures, " could make such a mixture of odd paradox, quaint fun,...manly sense, liberal opinions and striking language ?" The description of Sydney Smith's household system at this period of his life is interesting and...

...could have executed such an undertaking with the least chance of success ; for who could have made such a mixture of odd paradox, quaint fun, manly sense, liberal opinions, and striking language ?" The proceeds of these lectures enabled Sidney Smith to furnisli a house in Orchard Street, where...

...could have executed such an undertaking with the least chance of this sort of success, for who else could make such a mixture of odd paradox, quaint fun, manly sense, liberal opinion, striking language?' The sensation went on increasing, and galleries had to be erected for...